EFFECTS OF THERMAL RADIATION AND CHEMICAL REACTION ON UNSTEADY HYDROMAGNETIC MIXED CONVECTION FLOW PAST AN INFINITE VERTICAL PLATE

In this research work, the combined effects of thermal radiation and chemical reaction on an unsteady hydromagnetic mixed convective flow of incompressible and electrically conducting fluids past an infinite vertical porous plate has been made in presence of Soret and Dufour numbers. Energy equation takes into account of viscous dissipation, thermal radiation and Dufour effects. The governing differential equations are transformed into a set of non - linear coupled ordinary differential equations and solved using similarity analysis with finite difference numerical technique using appropriate boundary conditions for various physical parameters. Numerical solutions have been derived for the effects of different physical flow parameters on the velocity, temperature and concentration fields, skin - friction, rate of heat and mass transfer are discussed through graphs and results are physically interpreted.