Chemical reaction impact on MHD natural convection flow through porous medium past an exponentially stretching sheet in presence of heat source/sink and viscous dissipation

Abstract

This study investigates the viscous dissipation impact on free convection MHD flow through a porous medium over an exponentially stretching surface in presence of chemical reaction. The basic governing PDEs are converted into non-linear ODE's by using similarity transformations and then using the Keller-box method, numerical solutions are obtained. The flow features of boundary layers along with the bounding surface are identified and analysed using diagrams. It is noted that the increase in the Eckert number, Radiation and Magnetic parameter (M) increases the temperature profiles, while the increase in the chemical reaction parameter, porosity and Schmidt number decreases the concentration profile. To validate the results, a comparative study between the present study and previously published results for a particular case is conducted and good agreement is found between them.

Keywords

• MHD
• Stretching sheet
• Chemical reaction
• Eckert number
• Thermal radiation