Soret and Dufour effects on heat and mass transfer in chemically reacting MHD flow through a wavy channel
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2018
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JOURNAL OF TAIBAH UNIVERSITY FOR SCIENCE
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The problem of coupled heat and mass transfer by free convection of a chemically reacting viscous incompressible and electrically conducting fluid confined in a vertical channel bounded by wavy wall and flat wall in the presence of diffusion-thermo (Dufour), thermal-diffusion (Soret) and internal heat source or sink is studied. The walls are maintained at constant but different temperatures and species concentrations. A uniform magnetic field β_0 is acting transversely to the walls which are assumed to be electrically non-conducting. The dimensionless governing equations are perturbed into mean part (zeroth-order) and perturbed part (first-order), using amplitude as a perturbation parameter. The first-order quantities are obtained by long wave approximation. The resulting set of coupled ordinary differential equations are solved numerically using the Adomian decomposition method. Some of the results indicating the influence of various parameters on the zeroth-order and first-order fluid flow, heat and mass transfer characteristics are presented graphically.
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Chemical reaction; magneto-hydrodynamic; free convection; wavy channel; Adomian decomposition method