Heat and mass transfer in unsteady rotating fluid flow with binary chemical reaction and activation energy.

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Department of Pure & Applied Mathematics, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Published: June 2015

In this study, the Spectral Relaxation Method (SRM) is used to solve the coupled highly nonlinear system of partial differential equations due to an unsteady flow over a stretching surface in an incompressible rotating viscous fluid in presence of binary chemical reaction and Arrhenius activation energy. The velocity, temperature and concentration distributions as well as the skin-friction, heat and mass transfer coefficients have been obtained and discussed for various physical parametric values. The numerical results obtained by (SRM) are then presented graphically and discussed to highlight the physical implications of the simulations.

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