Effects of fractional mass transfer and chemical reaction on MHD flow in a heterogeneous porous medium. (15th October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Liu, Chunyan; Zheng, Liancun; Pan, Mingyang; Lin, Ping; Liu, Fawang
• Is Part Of: Computers & mathematics with applications. Volume 78:issue 8(2019)
• Page Start: 2618
• Page End: 2631
• Publication Date: 2019-10-15
• Subjects: Heterogeneous porous medium -- Anomalous diffusion -- Unsteady stretching sheet -- Finite difference method -- Stability and convergence; Electronic data processing -- Periodicals; Mathematics -- Data processing -- Periodicals; 510.28541
• DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2019.04.011
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0898-1221

Abstract

Abstract: This paper presents a study on space fractional anomalous convective-diffusion and chemical reaction in the magneto-hydrodynamic fluid over an unsteady stretching sheet. The fractional diffusion model is derived from decoupled continuous time random walks in a heterogeneous porous medium. A novel transformation which features time finite difference is introduced to reduce the governing equations into ordinary differential ones in each time level. Numerical solutions are established by an implicit finite difference scheme. The stability and convergence of the method are analyzed. Results show that increasing fractional derivative parameter enhances concentration near the surface while an opposite phenomenon occurs far away from the wall. There is a reduction of mass transfer rate on the sheet with an increase in the fractional derivative parameter. Moreover, the numerical solutions are compared with exact solutions and good agreement has been observed.