THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS

 

     TEORIJSKA I PRIMENJENA MEHANIKA  2007 Vol.34(4), pp.309-322

 

 

 

Summary: 

R.Muthucumaraswamy, K.Manivannan

 
 

Mass transfer effects on vertical oscillating plate with heat flux

 


Theoretical solution of unsteady viscous incompressible flow past an infinite vertical oscillating plate with uniform heat flux and mass diffusion is presented here, taking into account of the homogeneous chemical reaction of first-order. The temperature from the plate to the fluid at an uniform rate and the mass is diffused uniformly. The dimensionless governing equations has been obtained by the Laplace transform method, when the plate is oscillating harmonically in its own plane. The effects of velocity and concentration are studied for different parameters like phase angle, chemical reaction parameter, thermal Grashof number, mass Grashof number, Schmidt number and time are studied. The solutions are valid only for small values of time t. It is observed that the velocity increases with decreasing phase angle  wt or chemical reaction parameter.