NATURAL CONVECTION ON A MOVING
ISOTHERMAL VERTICAL PLATE WITH
CHEMICAL REACTION
R. Muthukumaraswamya, and P. Ganesanb

UDC 536.25

Numerical solution of the transient natural convection 
flow of an incompressible viscous fluid past an impulsively started 
semiinfinite isothermal vertical plate with mass diffusion is presented 
here, taking into account a homogeneous chemical reaction of first 
order. The concentration profiles are compared with the exact solution 
and are found to be in good agreement. It is observed that, owing 
to the presence of the first-order chemical reaction, the velocity 
increases during generative reaction and decreases in destructive 
reaction.

aDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Applications, 
Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur 602 105, India; 
email:msamy@svce.ac.in ; 
bDepartment of Mathematics, Anna University, Chennai 600 025, 
India; email: ganesan@annauniv.edu.
Published in Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 75, No. 1, 
pp. 86-90, January-February, 2002. 
Original article submitted March 12, 2001.

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