Homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions in micropolar fluid flow from a permeable stretching or shrinking sheet in a porous medium

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Shaw, Sachin

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Author list: Shaw S, Kameswaran PK, Sibanda P

Publisher: Hindawi / Springer Verlag (Germany) / SpringerOpen (part of Springer Nature)

Place: CHAM

Publication year: 2013

Journal: Boundary Value Problems (1687-2762)

Journal acronym: BOUND VALUE PROBL

Number of pages: 10

ISSN: 1687-2762

Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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Abstract

The effects of a homogeneous-heterogeneous reaction on steady micropolar fluid flow from a permeable stretching or shrinking sheet in a porous medium are numerically investigated in this paper. The model developed by Chaudhary and Merkin (Fluid Dyn. Res. 16:311-333, 1995) for a homogeneous-heterogeneous reaction in boundary layer flow with equal diffusivities for reactant and autocatalysis is used and extended in this study. The uniqueness of this problem lies in the fact that the solutions are possible for all values of the stretching parameter lambda > 0, while for lambda < 0 (shrinking surface), solutions are possible only for a limited range of values. The effects of physical and fluid parameters such as the stretching parameter, micropolar parameter, permeability parameter, Schmidt number, strength of homogeneous and heterogeneous reaction parameter on the skin friction, velocity and concentration are analyzed, and these results are presented through graphs. The solute concentration at the surface is found to decrease with the strength of the homogeneous reaction, and to increase with heterogeneous reactions, the permeability parameter and stretching or shrinking parameters. The velocity at the surface was found to increase with the micropolar parameter.

Keywords

Homogeneous-Heterogeneous Reactions, micropolar fluid, permeable stretching, Porous medium, shrinking sheet

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