Chemical Entropy Generation and MHD Effects on the Unsteady Heat and Fluid Flow through a Porous Medium. (20th January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rashed, Gamal M. Abdel-Rahman
• Other Names: Makinde Oluwole D. Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of applied mathematics. Volume 2016(2016)
• Publication Date: 2016-01-20
• Subjects: Mathematics -- Periodicals; 519.05
• DOI: 10.1155/2016/1748312
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1110-757X

Abstract

Abstract : Chemical entropy generation and magnetohydrodynamic effects on the unsteady heat and fluid flow through a porous medium have been numerically investigated. The entropy generation due to the use of a magnetic field and porous medium effects on heat transfer, fluid friction, and mass transfer have been analyzed numerically. Using a similarity transformation, the governing equations of continuity, momentum, and energy and concentration equations, of nonlinear system, were reduced to a set of ordinary differential equations and solved numerically. The effects of unsteadiness parameter, magnetic field parameter, porosity parameter, heat generation/absorption parameter, Lewis number, chemical reaction parameter, and Brinkman number parameter on the velocity, the temperature, the concentration, and the entropy generation rates profiles were investigated and the results were presented graphically.