Research Journal of Mathematics and Statistics 4(3): 63-69, 2012 ISSN: 2040-7505 © Maxwell Scientific Organization, 2012 Submitted: April 25, 2012 Accepted: June 08, 2012 Published: August 25, 2012 Viscoelastic Fluid Flow in a Fixed Plane with Heat and Mass Transfer I.J. Uwanta and E. Omokhuale Department of Mathematics, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, P.M.B. 2346, Sokoto, Nigeria Abstract: The aim of the present study is to investigate viscoelastic fluid in a fixed plane, taking the effect of heat and mass transfer into account. The resulting equations have been solved analytically using perturbation technique. Solutions are obtained for velocity, temperature and concentration distributions, as well as the Skin friction, Nussetl number and Sherwood number. The influence of various parameters such as the thermal Grashof number, Hartmann number, mass Grashof number, thermal Radiation, Schmidt number, Prandtl number, permeability parameter, frequency parameter and chemical reaction parameter on the flow field is examined. It is observed that the velocity increases with the increase in Gc, Gr and R and it decreases with the increase in , M, K, k, Sc, Pr and . Temperature decreases with increase in Pr and concentration decreases with the increase in Sc and k. Keywords: Heat transfer, mass transfer, viscoelastic The study of viscoelastic fluid has become of increasing importance during recent times. This is mainly due to its many applications in petroleum drilling, manufacturing of foods and study and many other similar activities (Ambethkar and singh, 2011). Elastic fluid flow of magneto hydro dynamic free convection through a porous medium was studied by Ezzat et al. (1996). Later, magneto hydro dynamic flow and heat transfer in a rectangular duct with temperature dependent viscosity and Hall effect was investigated by Sayed-Ahmed and Attia (2001). Atul Kumar et al. (2003) studied heat and mass transfer in MHD flow of a viscous fluid past a vertical plate under oscillating suction velocity. Muthucumaraswamy and Senthil (2004) have studied heat and mass transfer effects on moving vertical plate in the presence of thermal radiation. INTRODUCTION The study of viscoelastic fluid has become important in the last few years. Qualitative analysis of these studies has significant bearing on several industrial applications such as polymer sheet extrusion from a dye, drawing of plastic firms etc. When manufacturing processes at high temperature need cooling, the flow may need viscoelastic fluid to produce a good effect or reduce the temperature (Kai-Long, 2010). It is a well-known fact in the study of nonNewtonian fluid flow by Hartnett (1992). Raptis (1989) studied heat transfer of a viscoelastic fluid, Rafael (2007a) studied effect of viscous dissipation and radiation on the thermal boundary layer over a nonlinearly stretching sheet. Sanjayanand and Khan (2006) studied heat and mass transfer in a viscoelastic boundary layer flow over an exponentially stretching sheet, Rafael (2007b) and Seddeek (2007) studied MHD flow and mass transfer of an electrically conducting fluid of second grade in a porous medium over a stretching sheet with chemically reactive species and the heat and mass transfer problems about the viscoelastic boundary layer flow over a stretching sheet with magnetic effect respectively, but did not considered the mixed convection with radiation effect. Kai-Long (2010) studied heat and mass transfer for viscous flow with radiation effect past a non-linear stretching sheet. Unsteady two dimensional flow and heat transfer through an elastic-viscous liquid along an infinite hot vertical porous medium was studied by Sharma and Sharma (2005). Noushima et al. (2009) studied unsteady MHD memory flow and heat transfer over a moving continuous porous horizontal surface. MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION Consider the flow of incompressible memory fluid in a fixed plane with heat and mass transfer, under the influence of a uniform transverse magnetic field and constant suction. The x-axis is taken along the plane in the upward direction and a straight line perpendicular to that of the y-axis. All fluid properties are assumed constant. The magnetic field of small intensity H0 is introduced in the y-direction. Since the fluid is slightly conducting, the magnetic Reynolds number is much less than unity and hence the induced magnetic field is neglected. The governing equations for the momentum, continuity, energy and concentration are as follows: Corresponding Author: I.J. Uwanta, Department of Mathematics, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, P.M.B. 2346, Sokoto, Nigeria 63 Res. J. Math. Stat., 4(3): 63-69, 2012 g T0 Td Kv02 e 2 H 02 1v02 Cp Gr , Pr ,K 2 ,M , Rm 2 v02 v03 KT 3 g 2 C0 Cd 4 T 4R 1 Gc , Sc , R , N 1 03 D KaR 3 Pr y g v 0 y (2) T T K T 2T 1 qr v c py 2 c p y t y (3) C C C v D K * (C C d ) t y y 2 2 where, u and v : g β and β2 β1 ρ KT Cp : : : : : : : : σ μe D T0 Td : : : : : C0 Cd : : (1) ,t qr (4) tv02 T Td C Cd u , u , ,C 4 0 T0 Td C0 C d 4 * T 4 3a R y (8) We assume that the temperature difference within the flow is such that T4 may be expressed as a linear function of the temperature T. This is accomplished by expanding T4 in Taylor series about Td and neglecting higher order terms: T 4 4Td3T 3Td4 (9) Substituting the dimensionless variable in (7) into (1), (3), (4) and also using (8) and (9). We get (dropping the bars): 3u u u 2u 3u Gr 2 Rm 3 Ku Mu GcC 2 4 t y y y 4t y N 2 0 y 2 y 4t 1 2C C C kC 0 y 4t Sc y 2 The mathematical formulation is an extension of Noushima et al. (2010). The rate of change of radioactive heat flux with respect to distance and mass transfer were added to the existing equations Integrating (2) gives: (10) (11) (12) With boundary conditions: y 0 : U 0, 1 e i t , C 1 e i t y 1: U 0, 0, C 0 (5) where, Gr : The thermal Grashof number M : The Hartmann number Gc : The mass Grashof number R : The thermal radiation Sc : The Schmidt number Pr : The Prandtl number Rm : The Magnetic Reynold number K : The permeability Parameter K : The chemical reaction parameter where, v0>0 and the negative sign indicate that the suction is towards the plane. The boundary conditions of the problem are: y 0 : U 0, T Td (T0 Td )e i t , C C d (C 0 C d ) e i t y 1: U 0, 0, C 0 (7) The term ∂qr/∂y represents the change in radioactive heat flux with distance. The radioactive heat flux term by using Rosseland approximation, is given as: The components of velocity in the x and y direction respectively The acceleration due to gravity The coefficient of volume expansion The kinematic viscoelasticity The density The viscosity The kinematic viscosity The thermal conductivity The specific heat in the fluid at constant pressure The electrical conductivity of the fluid The magnetic permeability The molecular diffusivity The temperature of the plane The temperature of the fluid far away from plane The concentration of the plane The concentration of the fluid far away from the plane v v0 yv0 (6) Introducing the following non-dimensionless quantities: 64 (13) Res. J. Math. Stat., 4(3): 63-69, 2012 C1 ScC1 D2C1 0 METHOD OF SOLUTIONS To solve (10), (11) and (12), we take solutions of the form: U ( y, t) U 0 ( y) U 1 y e ( y , t ) 0 ( y ) 1 y e i t (15) C ( y , t ) C 0 ( y ) C 1 y e i t (16) where U 0 y , 0 y , U1 y , 1 y and With boundary conditions: y 0 : U 0 0, 0 1, C0 1 y 1: U 0 0, 0 0, C0 0 (14) i t C1 y are determined. Substituting (14), (15), (16) into (10), (11), (12) respectively, Comparing harmonic and non harmonic terms, we obtain: 0 U 0 U 00 RmU 01 U 1 U 11 RmU 12 (17) 1 0 0 N (19) and boundary conditions: y 0 : U 0 0,0 1, C0 1 y 1: U 0 0,0 0, C0 0 (20) Also, 1 i 1 1 0 N 4N U 00 L1U 00 Gr 0 GcC 0 U 00 (26) U 11 U 11 D1U 11 Gr1 GcC1 (27) U 01 L1U 01 U 00 U 01 (28) U 12 D1U 12 U 11 iU 11 U 12 (29) The corresponding boundary conditions are: RmU1 i RmU1 U1 U1 D1U1 Gr1 GcC1 (21) 1 (25) Substituting (25) into (17) and (21) with their boundary conditions, we obtain the following: (18) C 0 ScC 0 K ScC 0 0 (24) where, the primes denotes differentiation with respect to y. The Eq. (17) and (21) are third order differential equation due to the presence of viscoelasticity. Since the viscoelasticity coefficient β1 is very small in Rm therefore U0 and U1 is expanded in term of Rm to first order (Beard and Walters, 1964): to be RmU 0 U 0 U 0 LU 1 0 Gr 0 GcC0 (23) y 0 : U 00 U 01 U11 U12 0 y 1: U 00 U 01 U11 U12 0 (22) (30) Solving (26) to (29) under the boundary condition (30) and substituting the obtained solution into (14). The velocity field can be expressed as: U y, t [( A1em1 y A2e m2 y A3 A4e 1 y N A5er1 y A6e r2 y ) Rm( B1em1 y B2e m2 y B3 yem1 y B4 ye m2 y B5e 1 y N B6er1 y B7 e r2 y )] e i t {( D 0 e my D 20 e ny D 3 e gy D 4 e fy D 5 e ry D 6 e sy ) + Rm( E1e my E2 e ny E15 ye my E16 ye ny E17 e gy E18 e fy E19 e ry E20 e sy )} (31) Similarly, solving (18) and (22) subject to the boundary conditions (20) and (24). The temperature field is: y , t [ L30 L31 e 1 N (32) ] e i t [ L 60 e gy L 61 e fy ] Also, solving (19) and (23) subject to the boundary conditions (20) and (24). The concentration field is: 65 Res. J. Math. Stat., 4(3): 63-69, 2012 C y , t [ L32 e r1 y L33 e r2 y ] e i t [ L62 e ry L63 e sy ] (33) Skin friction is obtained when (31) is differentiated and evaluated at y 0 : U ( y , t ) y [( m1 A1 m2 A2 y 0 1 1 A4 r1 A5 r2 A6 ) Rm ( m1 B1 m2 B2 B3 B4 B5 r1 B6 r2 B7 )] N N (34) e i t {( mD0 nD20 gD3 fD4 rD5 sD6 ) Rm ( mE1 nE2 E15 E16 gE17 fE18 rE19 sE20 )} Nusselt number is obtained when (32) is differentiated and evaluated at y = 0: y , t y [ y0 (35) 1 L31 ] e i t [ gL60 fL61 ] N Sherwood number is obtained when (33) is differentiated and evaluated at y = 0: C y,t y (36) [ r1 L 3 2 r2 L 3 3 ] e i t [ r L 6 2 s L 6 3 ] y0 1.01 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Pr = 0.025, 0.71, 1, 3 0.99 0.98 0.97 0.96 0.95 0 1 2 3 4 6 5 t 7 8 9 10 Fig. 1: Temperature profiles plotted against time for different values of Pr 1.0 Pr = 0.71, 1, 3, 7, 10 Temperature 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 Y 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 Fig. 2: Temperature profiles for different values of Pr 0.65 0.60 Concentration Viscoelastic fluid flow in a fixed point with heat and mass transfer has been formulated and solved analytically. In order to understand the flow of the fluid, computations are performed for different parameters such as Gr, M, Gc, R, Sc, Pr, K, k, and . Figure 1 and 2 represent the temperature profiles, Fig. 3-5 are the concentration profiles and Fig. 6-16 represent the velocity profiles with varying parameters respectively. The effect of temperature for different values of (Pr = 0.025, 0.71, 1, 3) when y = 0.5 and 0 t 10 is presented in Fig. 1. In Fig. 2, the effect of temperature for different values of (Pr = 0.71, 1, 3, 7, 10) is shown. The graphs show that temperature decreases with increase in Pr. The effect of concentration for different values of (Sc = 0.22, 0.6, 0.8, 2.01) when y = 0.5 and 0 t 10 is given in Fig. 3. Also, the effect of concentration for different values of (k = 2, 4, 6, 8) is shown in Fig. 4. Figure 5 denote the effect of concentration for (Sc = 0.22, 0.6, 0.8, 2.01). The graphs show that concentration decreases with the increase in Sc and k. The effect of velocity for different values of (Gc = 2, 3, 5, 10) is presented in Fig. 6, the effect of velocity for different values of (Gr = 2, 3, 4, 5) is given in Fig. 7 and 8 denote the effect of velocity for (R = 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5). The graphs show that velocity increases with the increase in Gc, Gr and R. The effect of velocity for different values ( = 1, 5, 8, 10) is presented in Fig. 9, the effect of velocity for different values of (M = 2, 2.5, 5, 7) is shown in Temperature 1.00 Sc = 0.22, 0.6 , 0.8, 2.01 0.55 0.50 0.45 0.40 0.35 0.30 0.25 0.20 0 1 2 3 4 5 t 6 7 8 9 10 Fig. 3: Concentration profiles plotted against time for different values of Sc 66 Res. J. Math. Stat., 4(3): 63-69, 2012 2.5 1.4 2.0 K = 2, 4, 6, 8 1.0 1.5 Velocity Concentration 1.2 0.8 0.6 1.0 0.4 0 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 Y 0.6 0.7 0 0.8 0.9 1.0 0.16 0.14 0.6 0.4 0.10 0.08 0.06 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 Y 0.6 0.7 0.02 0.00 0.8 0.9 1.0 0 Fig. 5: Concentration profiles for different values of Sc 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 Y 0.6 0.7 Fig. 9: Velocity profiles for different values of 0.35 1.6 1.4 0.25 1.2 0.20 1.0 Velocity 0.30 0.15 0.8 0.9 1.0 M = 2, 2.5, 5, 7 0.8 0.6 0.10 0.05 0.4 Gc = 2, 3, 5, 10 0 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 Y 0.2 6.0 7.0 0.0 8.0 9.0 1.0 0 Fig. 6: Velocity profiles for different values of Gc 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 Y 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 Fig. 10: Velocity profiles for different values of M 1.8 K = 0.1, 0.5, 1, 2 0.6 0.5 1.2 0.4 Velocity 1.6 1.4 Velocity = 1, 5, 8, 10 0.04 0.2 0.00 0.8 0.9 1.0 0.12 Sc = 0.2, 0.6, 0.8, 2.01 0.8 0 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 Y Fig. 8: Velocity profiles for different values of R 1.2 1.0 0.1 0 1.4 Velocity Conce ntration Fig. 4: Concentration profiles for different values of k Velocity R = 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5 0.5 0.2 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.1 Gr = 2, 3, 4, 5 0.2 0 0.0 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 Y 0.6 0.7 0 0.8 0.9 1.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 Y 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 Fig. 11: Velocity profiles for different values of K Fig. 7: Velocity profiles for different values of Gr 67 Res. 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Stat., 4(3): 63-69, 2012 K = 1, 5, 10, 20 0.5 0.155 0.4 0.150 0.3 0.145 0.2 0.140 0.1 0.135 0.130 0.0 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 Y 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 3 2 4 5 t 0.7 Sc = 0.22, 0.6, 2.01, 2.65 0.7 6 7 9 8 10 Fig. 15: Velocity profiles plotted against time for different values of Sc 0.8 = 0.2, 2, 5, 7 0.6 0.6 0.5 Velocity Velocity 1 0 1.0 Fig. 12: Velocity profiles for different values of k 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 Y 0.7 0 0.8 0.9 1.0 Fig. 13: Velocity profiles for different values of Sc Pr = 0.71, 1, 3, 7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 Y 0.8 0.9 1.0 Fig. 14: Velocity profiles for different values of Pr Table 3: Skin friction τ ε ω 0.2 1 0.2 1 0.3 1 0.2 2 0.2 1 0.2 1 0.2 1 0.2 1 0.2 1 0.2 1 0.2 1 Pr 0.71 0.71 0.71 0.71 1.00 0.71 0.71 0.71 0.71 0.71 0.71 Sc 0.3 0.6 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 R 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 Y 0.8 0.9 1.0 0.6 0.7 Fig. 16: Velocity profiles for different values of 0.7 Velocity Sc = 0.22, 0.5, 0.8, 2.01 0.160 Velocity Velocity 0.6 Rm 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 Table 1: Sherwood number ε ω 0.2 1 0.2 1 0.2 1 0.2 2 0.3 1 Sc 0.3 0.6 0.3 0.3 0.3 K 1 1 2 1 1 Sh -1.2505 -1.5109 -1.3448 -1.2457 -1.2481 Table 2: Nusselt number ε ω 0.2 1 0.2 1 0.2 2 0.3 1 0.2 1 Sc 0.71 1.00 0.71 0.71 0.71 K 1 1 1 1 2 Sh -1.1548 -1.2224 -1.1497 -1.1523 -1.0967 M 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 τ 0.3212 0.3068 0.1819 0.3193 0.3179 0.4202 0.3042 0.3140 0.5245 0.6360 0.2860 K 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 1 68 K 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 Gc 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 8 4 4 Gr 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 2 Res. 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Heat Mass Transfer, 27(8): 1177-1187. Seddeek, M.A., 2007. Heat and mass transfer on a stretching sheet with a magnetic field in a viscoelastic fluid flow in a porous medium with heat source. Comput. Mater. Sci., 46(8): 721-728. Sharma, P.R. and S. Sharma, 2005. Unsteady two dimensional flow and heat transfer of through an elastic-viscous liquid along an infinite hot vertical porous medium. Bull. Cal. Math. Soc., 98(3): 477-488. Fig. 10, the effect of velocity for different values of (K = 0.1, 0.5, 1, 2) is given in Fig. 11. Figure 12 depict the effect of velocity for (k = 1, 5, 10, 20). The effect of velocity for different values (Sc = 0.22, 0.6, 2.01, 2.65) is presented in Fig. 13, the effect of velocity for different values (Pr = 0.71, 1.0, 3.0, 7.0) is shown in Fig. 14, the effect of velocity for different values of (Sc = 0.22, 0.6, 0.8, 2.01) when y = 0.5 and 0 t 10 is presented in Fig. 15and16 depict the effect of velocity for ( = 0.2, 2, 5, 7). The graphs show that velocity decreases with increase in , M, K, k, Sc, Pr and . Table 1 to 3 represent the Skin friction, Nusselt number and Sherwood number respectively. Table 1 depicts that the Sherwood number decreases with increase in Sc, k and increases with increase in and . Table 2 represents that the rate of heat transfer decreases with increase in Pr and increases with increase in , and R. Table 3 shows that Shear stress increases with increase in R, Gc and Gr and decreases with the increase in Sc, , Pr, R, k, K, and M. 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