INVESTIGATION OF TRANSIENT AND STEADY STATE HYDROMAGNETIC CHEMICAL
KINETIC EXPONENT OF FREE CONVECTIVE SLIP FLOW IN VERTICAL CHANNEL FILLED
WITH POROUS MEDIUM
Abstract
This paper investigates steady and unsteady magnetohydrodynamic chemical
kinetic exponent of free convective slip flow in a vertical channel
filled with porous medium. The Navier slip and Newtonian heating at the
plates were taken in to consideration. The governing equation were
transformed from dimensional to non -dimensional form using
dimensionless quantities, the steady state solution is obtained using
Homotopy Perturbation Method (HMP), unsteady state solution was obtained
through numerical approach refer to implicit finite difference scheme.
The effects of various flow parameters entering into the problem such as
Darcy number, Hartmann number, Navier slip parameter chemical reaction
parameter, chemical kinetic exponent, local Biot number, as well as
activation energy parameter with difference ratio were discussed with
the aid of line graphs. It is found that greater values of chemical
kinetic exponent (m) significantly improve the temperature and velocity
gradients respectively in which the fluid velocity and temperature is
higher at Biomolecular type of chemical reaction compare to that of
Arrhenius and Sensitized. On the hand, Darcy number is seen to improve
the fluid velocity. Furthermore, Comparison has been made for steady
state and unsteady solution which shows excellent agreement.