• FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF CONVECTIVE HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER FLOW OVER A STRETCHING SHEET EMBEDDED IN A POROUS MEDIUM WITH CHEMICAL REACTION, SORET AND RADIATION ABSORPTION

Abstract

We investigate the mathematical model of convective heat and mass transfer flow over a stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium under the influence of chemical reaction, radiation absorption and Soret effect. The governing fundamental equations are first transformed into system ordinary differential equations using self similarity transformation and they are then solved numerically by using Galerkin Finite Element method. Important features of flow, heat and mass transfer characteristic for different values of Schmidt number, Buoyancy ratio, chemical reaction, radiation absorption and Soret effect are analyzed and discussed. Favorable comparisons with previously published work on various special cases of the problem are obtained. Numerical results for velocity, temperature and concentration distributions for a prescribed various parameters as well as Nusselt number and Sherwood number with different parameters are reported graphically.