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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 195, Issue 12, Pages 1575-1584Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/00986440802115549
Keywords
chemical reaction; free convection; magnetic field; radiative heat; vertical porous plate
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The effect of temperature-dependent viscosity on free convective flow past a vertical porous plate is studied in the presence of a magnetic field, thermal radiation, and a first-order homogeneous chemical reaction. Boundary layer equations are derived and the resulting approximate nonlinear ordinary differential equations are solved numerically by the shooting method. A parametric study of all parameters involved is conducted, and a representative set of numerical results for the velocity and temperature profiles as well as the skin-friction parameter and the Nusselt and Sherwood numbers is illustrated graphically to show typical trends of the solutions. The dynamic viscosity in this study is taken as a function of the temperature although the Prandtl number is considered constant.
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