CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER ANALYSIS NEAR A MOVING INFINITE VERTICAL POROUS PLATE WITH NEWTONIAN HEATING

The free convection flow due to heat and mass transfer along an impulsively
started vertical porous plate has numerous applications in engineering and technology.
For example, water filtration in agriculture engineering, distillation, oil cracking, in
nuclear reactors, ionization of liquids, etc. In this thesis, the free convection heat and
mass transfer flow past an impulsively started infinite vertical porous plate with
Newtonian heating is studied. Different physical effects such as heat generation,
viscous dissipation, magnetic field, thermal radiation, chemical reaction, Soret and
Dufour effects have been examined in this research. The governing non-linear
boundary layer equations are transformed to non-dimensional ordinary differential
equations by using suitable dimensioniess variables. The non-linear problems are then
solved by Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM). HAM solution results are found to be
in excellent agreement with the exact solution results for limiting case. The velocity,
temperature and concentration profiles as well as skin friction, rate of heat and mass
transfer are analyzed through graphs and tables.