Effect of Chemical Reaction on Mass Distribution of a Binary Fluid Mixture in Unsteady MHD Couette Flow

Abstract

ABSTRACT:The problem of mass distribution in an unsteady two dimensional flow of a viscous, incompressible, thermally and electrically conducting binary fluid mixture between two infinite vertical parallel plates under the influence of chemical reaction, uniform magnetic field and temperature gradient is studied. The magnetic field lines are assumed to be fixed relative to the moving plates. The governing partial differential equations are first transformed into ODEs by the method of separation of variables and then solved numerically by using MATLAB's built in solver bvp4c. The solution for the concentration of the rarer and lighter component of the binary fluid mixture for different values of Reynolds number, chemical reaction parameter, Schmidt number, thermal diffusion number and Peclet number are presented graphically to analyse their effects on mass distribution of the components of the binary fluid mixture.

Magnetohydrodynamic flow around an elongated cylinder in non-Darcian porous regime with higher order chemical reaction and Soret/Dufour effects

“…Here, Forchheimer's extension is employed to designate the fluid flow in the permeable medium. The ambient temperature away from the cylinder surface is * T  and the cylinder surface is kept at a constant temperature * The governing equations, under the above assumptions (following [14]) become: Here, **…”

“…M. Ramzan et al [10] discussed the MHD fluid flow with the inclusion of a melting heat transfer with nonlinear chemical reaction across a slim needle in a porous system. Sarojamma et al [11], Ly et al [12], Shafique et al [13] studied the impact of linear chemical reactions and authors like Sharma and Borgohain [14], Mythili and Sivaraj [15], Hosseinzadeh [16], Muthtamilselvan [17], Ramzan et al [18] considered the impact of nonlinear chemical reaction on different flow problems.…”

“…In this study our aim is to investigate the influence of the non-Darcian and non-linear chemical reaction on an incompressible magnetohydrodynamic flow over an elongated cylinder surrounded in a porous regime. This paper is an extension of the work of Sharma and Borgohain [14] which incorporates the influences of an inclined magnetic field and non-Darcian porous medium.…”

Soret Effect on nth Order Chemically Reactive MHD Flow through Porous Medium Bounded by Two Vertical Plates with Heat Source

“…Sharma et al [14] discussed the influence of chemical reaction, heat source, Soret and Dufour effects on separation of a binary fluid mixture in MHD natural convection flow in porous media. Sharma and Konwar [15] have discussed the effect of chemical reaction in unsteady MHD Couette Flow.…”

Influence of Chemical reaction, Soret, Dufour and variable thermal conductivity effects on unsteady free convective flow between two concentric circular cylinders

“…[9] studied the chemical reaction and radiation absorption effects on mixed convective flow in a circular annulus at constant heat and mass flux. Sharma and Konwar [10] discussed the chemical reaction effect on mass distribution of a binary fluid mixture in unsteady MHD couette flow. This paper is an extension of the paper [4] in which Dufour and variable thermal conductivity are investigated.…”