• RADIATION AND MASS TRANSFER EFFECTS ON MOVING VERTICAL PLATE WITH VARIABLE TEMPERATURE AND VISCOUS DISSIPATION

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to study the thermal radiation and heat generation effects on unsteady flow of a viscous incompressible fluid past an impulsively started infinite vertical plate with variable temperature and uniform mass diffusion. The fluid considered here is gray, absorbing-emitting radiation but a non scattering medium. The governing equations of the flow field were solved numerically using Crank-Nicolson implicit finite difference method. The results are obtained for velocity, temperature, and concentration. The effects of various material parameters are discussed on flow variables and are presented by graphs. It is observed that the velocity increases with decreasing values of the radiation parameter.