Heat and mass transfer in stagnation-point flow of a polar fluid towards a stretching surface in porous media in the presence of Soret, Dufour and chemical reaction effects

Chemical Engineering Communications

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 214-234

  Chamkha, A J ^a   Aly, A M ^b  

^a MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT   (Kuwait)

^b SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Chemical reaction; Porous media; Soret and Dufour effects; Stagnation point; Stretching surface

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER EQUATIONS; FIRST-ORDER; FLUID VELOCITIES; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; LIMITING CASE; LOCAL HEAT; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OPPOSING FLOW; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POLAR FLUID; POROUS MEDIA; SELF-SIMILAR; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; SORET AND DUFOUR EFFECTS; STAGNATION POINTS; STAGNATION-POINT FLOW; STRETCHING SURFACE;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLUIDS; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; NEWTONIAN FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS;

SURFACE REACTIONS;

EID: 78149393437     PISSN: 00986445     EISSN: 15635201     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00986445.2010.500161     Document Type: Article

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