Convective Heat & Mass Transfer through a Porous Medium in Vertical Wavy Channel with Chemical Reaction & Heat Sources

Abstract

In this paper we deal with the two-dimensional laminar simultaneous heat and mass transfer flow of a viscous, incompressible, electrically conducting and chemically reacting fluid through a porous medium confined in a vertical wavy channel. The equations of continuity, linear momentum, energy and diffusion which govern the flow fields are solved by employing a regular perturbation technique with slope d as the perturbation parameter .The behavior of the velocity, temperature and concentration, skin friction, Nusselt number and Sherwood Number has been discussed for variations in the governing parameters.

Keywords: Wavy channel, Porous medium, chemically reacting fluid.