Free Convection Flow and Mass Transfer of an Elastico-Viscous Fluid past an Infinite Vertical Porous Plate in a Rotating Porous Medium

摘要

The steady free convection flow and mass transfer of an elastico-viscous liquid through a porous medium occupying an infinite region of the space bounded by an infinite vertical porous plate with constant suction and heat flux in a rotating frame of reference has been studied. The temperature and the species concentration at the free stream are assumed to be constant. A cartesian co-ordinate system rotating uniformly with the fluid in a rigid state of rotation with constant angular velocity Ω about z-axis is considered. It is of interest to note that the solutions of coupled non linear equations bring out the effect of elastic parameters, Schmidt number, Grashof number, Prandtl number and permeability parameter on primary and secondary velocity profiles.