Laplace Analysis of Periodic Heat and Mass Transport on a Parabolic Started Surface immersed in Darcian Porous Regime

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Laplace Analysis of Periodic Heat and Mass Transport on a
Parabolic Started Surface immersed in Darcian Porous Regime
Hamida Khatun*, Sahin Ahmed**
*(Department of Mathematics, South Salmara College, Dhubri-783127, Assam, India,
Email: azizurdr786@gmail.com)
**(Department of Mathematics, Rajiv Gandhi Central University, Rono Hills, Itanagar-791112,
Arunachal Pradesh, India, Email: sahin.ahmed@rgu.ac.in)
ABSTRACT
An analysis of periodic heat and mass transport of unsteady hydromagnetic flow past a parabolic started motion
of the infinite vertical plate immersed in Darcian porous regime in presence of a first order chemical reaction
has been presented. Here the plate temperature as well as concentration level near the plate are increased linearly
with time. The boundary layer conservation equations have been solved by Laplace transforms technique. It has
been observed that both the velocity and concentration are decreased with increasing values of chemical reaction
parameter. But the opposite behavior has been found for the flow velocity when the values of free convection as
well as porosity parameter are increased. Application of magnetic fields to medical science is growing rapidly,
with the development of novel magnetic pumps, hydromagnetic separation devices with chemical engineering
and geophysical energy systems.
Keywords: Boundary layer, Chemical engineering, Darcian porous regime, Hydromagnetic, Laplace
Transforms Technique.
I. INTRODUCTION
Transport processes in porous media can
involve fluid, heat and mass transfer in single or
multi-phase scenarios. Such flows with and without
buoyancy effects arise frequently in many branches
of chemical engineering and owing to their
viscousdominated nature are generally simulated
using the Darcy model. Applications of such flows
include chip-based micro fluidic chromatographic
separation devices (Dorfman and Brenner, [1]),
dissolution of masses buried in a packed bed (
Delgado, [2]), heat transfer in radon saturating
permeable regimes (Minkin, [3]), flows in ceramic
filter components of integrated gasification
combined cycles (IGCC) ( Seo et al., [4]),
separation of carbon dioxide from the gas phase
with aqueous adsorbents (water and diethanolamine
solution) in micro porous hollow fibre membrane
modules (Al-Saffar et al., [5]), food processing and
polymer production. Keeping in view these
applications Chamkha et al. [6] studied the effects
of Hydro magnetic combined heat and mass
transfer by natural convection from a permeable
surface embedded in a fluid saturated porous
medium. Mukherjee et al.
[7] studied the momentum and the heat
transfer characteristics in incompressible
electrically conducting boundary layer flow over an
exponentially stretching sheet under the effect of
magnetic field with thermal radiation through
porous medium. Ahmed [8] investigated the effect
of periodic heat transfer on unsteady MHD mixed
convection flow past a vertical porous flat plate
with constant suction and heat sink when the free
stream velocity oscillates in about a non-zero
constant mean. There are many applications for the
parabolic motion such as solar cookers, solar
concentrators and parabolic trough solar collector.
A parabolic concentrator type solar cooker has a
wide range of applications like baking, roasting and
distillation due to its unique property of producing
a practically higher temperature of nearly 2500C
and hence it provides inconvenience to the user due
to high amount of glare. Solar concentrators have
their applications in increasing the rate of
evaporation of waste water, in food processing, for
making drinking water from brackish and sea
water. Many researchers have been attracted due to
these important applications namely Kumar et al.
[9] investigated about the viscous dissipation
effects on the unsteady magnetohydrodynamic free
convective flow past a parabolic starting motion of
the infinite vertical plate with variable temperature
and variable mass diffusion. Muthucumaraswamy
and Armstrong [10] presented an exact solution of
unsteady flow past a parabolic starting motion of
an infinite vertical plate with variable temperature
and mass diffusion, in the presence of a
homogeneous chemical reaction of first order.
Muralidharan and Muthucumaraswamy [11]
presented a closed form solution of flow past a
parabolic starting motion of the infinite vertical
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plate with uniform heat flux and variable mass
diffusion. Muthucumaraswamy and Velmurugan
[12] presented the hypothetical solution of flow
past a parabolic starting motion of the infinite
vertical plate with variable temperature and
variable mass diffusion. Muthucumaraswamy and
Venkatesan [13] studied an exact solution of
unsteady flow past a parabolic started infinite
isothermal vertical plate with uniform mass flux, in
the presence of thermal radiation. | P a g e
Magnetohydrodynamic flows in porous media have
stimulated considerable attention owing to the
importance of such flows in magnetic materials
processing, chemical engineering and geophysical
energy systems. In view of these applications of the
flow through porous medium, a series of
investigation has been made by Raptis et al. ([14],
[15, [16]), where the porous medium is either
bounded by horizontal, vertical surfaces or parallel
porous plates. Ahmed [17] investigated the
unsteady hydromagnetic flow of an electrically
conducting fluid through a Darcian porous medium
adjacent to a uniformly accelerated vertical plate in
a rotating system using boundary layer
approximation. Chaudhary and Jain [18] studied
the influence of oscillating temperature on
magnetohydrodynamic convection heat transfer
past a vertical plane in a Darcian porous medium.
An investigation was performed for unsteady
Magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow and
heat transfer through a Darcian porous medium
bounded by a uniformly moving semi-infinite
isothermal vertical plate in presence of thermal
radiation by Khatun and Ahmed [19].
Mass diffusion rates can be changed
tremendously with chemical reactions. The
chemical reaction effects depend whether the
reaction is homogeneous or heterogeneous. This
depends on whether they occur at an interface or as
a single phase volume reaction. In well mixed
systems, the reaction is heterogeneous, if it takes
place at an interface and homogeneous, if it takes
place in solution. In majority cases, a chemical
reaction depends on the concentration of the
species itself. A reaction is said to be of first order,
if the rate of reaction is directly proportional to the
concentration of only one reactant and is
independent of others. Decomposition of nitrogen
pent oxide in the gas phase as well in an organic
solvent like CCl4, conversion of
Nchloroacetanilide into p-chloroacetanilide,
hydrolysis of methyl acetate and inversion of cane
sugar. The radioactive disintegration of unstable
nuclei are the best examples of first order reactions.
The related literatures are Agrawal et al. [20]
studied free convection due to thermal and mass
diffusion in laminar flow of an accelerated infinite
vertical plate in the presence of magnetic field.
Agrawal et al.
[21] further extended the problem of
unsteady free convective flow and mass diffusion
of an electrically conducting elasto-viscous fluid
past a parabolic starting motion of the infinite
vertical plate with transverse magnetic plate. The
governing equations are tackled using Laplace
transform technique. Muthucumaraswamy and
Velmurugan [22] studied on the unsteady
hydromagnetic flow past a parabolic starting
motion of the infinite vertical plate with variable
temperature and mass diffusion, in the presence of
homogeneous chemical reaction of first order.
Manivannan et al. [23] investigated radiation and
chemical reaction effects on isothermal vertical
oscillating plate with variable mass diffusion. The
modal of magnetohydronamic transient convective
radiating heat transfers in an isotropic, homogenous
porous regime adjacent to a hot vertical plate using
the Laplace transform method were studied by
Ahmed and Kalita [24]. The effects of
conductionradiation, porosity and chemical
reaction on unsteady hydromagnetic free
convection flow past an impulsively-started semi-
infinite vertical plate embedded in a porous
medium in the presence of first order chemical
reaction and thermal radiation were analyzed by
Ahmed [25]. Analytical solution of a
magnetohydrodynamic steady mixed convective
flow over an infinite vertical porous plate with
combined heat and mass transfer is presented by
Ahmed et al. [26].
The aim of the present problem is to
investigate the effects of porosity of the medium
and chemical reaction on the flow past an infinite
vertical plate subjected to parabolic motion with
variable temperature, in the presence of applied
transverse magnetic field. The dimensionless
governing equations are solved using the Laplace-
transform technique. The solutions are derived in
terms of exponential and complementary error
functions. The validity of the present flow model
has been established through the results compared
with the results of the previous work done by
Muthucumaraswamy and Velmurugan [22] and the
results are in good agreement.

II. MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
Fig. 1: Physical model and coordinate system
The magnetic and viscous dissipations are
neglected in this study. The first and second terms
on the RHS of the momentum equation (1) denote
the thermal and concentration buoyancy effects,
respectively. It is assumed that the permeable plate
moves with a variable velocity in the direction of
fluid flow. In addition, it is assumed that the
temperature and the concentration at the wall are
varying with time.
The initial and boundary conditions are
:

III. METHODOLOGY
The equations (6)-(8) and the corresponding initial and boundary conditions (9) are solved by the Laplace-
transform technique and the solutions are obtained as follows:

The comparison of the present results with
previously published work has established the good
agreement and it has been observed that the
absolute difference between these comparisons for
the flow velocity is less than 10-5. It is seen from
the Table-I that the flow velocity are increased with
the increasing values of Prandtl number (Pr).
V. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION:
In order to get a clear insight of the physical
problem, numerical results are displayed with the
help of graphs in details. This enables us to carry
out the numerical calculations for the distribution
of the velocity, temperature and concentration
across the boundary layer for various values of the
parameters. In the present study we have
chosen M=5, Gr=Gm=5, t=0.1, K=0.1, Sc=0.6,
Pr=0.71 and Cr=0.1.
Fig. 2: Velocity profile for magnetic field, M
Fig. 3: Velocity profile for porosity, K
The effect of the Hartmann number M on
the dimensionless velocity profile µ has been
presented in Fig. 2. It is observed in this Figure that
the velocity is decreased with the increase of the
magnetic parameter. The effects of a transverse
magnetic field give rise to a resistive-type force
called the Lorentz force. This force has the
tendency to slow down the motion of the fluid
flow.
Fig. 4: Velocity profile for free convection
parameter, Gr
Figure 3 shows the velocity profiles for
different values of the permeability (K). Cleary the
increasing K gets the peak value of velocity. These
results could be very useful in deciding the
applicability of enhanced oil recovery in reservoir
engineering.
Fig. 5: Temperature profile for Prandtl parameter,
Pr
Figure 4 depicts the effects of the local
thermal free convection (Gr) with increasing y on
the dimensionless velocity. It is observed that the
increase of the Grashof number leads to the
increase of the velocity of the fluid. This is because
the increase of Gr results in the increase of
temperature gradients (Tw − T∞), leads to the
enhancement of the velocity due to the enhanced
convection. A typical variation of the temperature
profile along the span wise coordinate y is shown
in Fig. 5 for different values of Prandtl number
(Pr). The results show that an increase of Prandtl
number decreases the temperature profiles of
thermal boundary layer thickness and more
uniform temperature distribution across the
boundary layer. Moreover, the velocity becomes
linear due to the metallic liquid (Pr = 0.25).

Fig. 6: Velocity profile for chemical reaction, Cr
The effects of the generative chemical
reaction parameter Cr on the dimensionless
velocity µ and concentration profiles are
respectively presented in Figs 6, and 7. It is
observed in these Figures that the velocities as well
as concentration are decreased with the increase of
the generative chemical reaction. The effect of
chemical reaction parameter is very important in
the concentration field. Chemical reaction increases
the rate of interfacial mass transfer. Reaction
reduces the local concentration, thus increases its
concentration gradient and its flux.
Fig. 7: Concentration profile for chemical reaction,
Cr
Figure 8 illustrates the concentration
profiles across the boundary layer for various
values of Schmidt number Sc. The figure shows
that an increasing in Sc results in a decreasing the
concentration distribution, because the smaller
values of Sc are equivalent to increasing the
chemical molecular diffusivity.
Fig. 8: Concentration profile for Schmidt number,
Sc
VI. CONCLUSIONS
In this paper we have studied analytically
the porosity and chemical reaction effects on an
unsteady MHD free convention and mass transfer
flow past a semi-infinite vertical plate embedded in
a Darcian porous medium. From the present study
the following conclusions can be drawn:
 An increase in magnetic field parameter
decreases the velocity profiles.
• The velocity profiles are increased with an
increase of free convection currents and
porosity of the medium as well.
• The generative chemical reaction of the
species leads to decrease of the flow velocity
as well as concentration
 boundary layer.
• Large Darcy number (large porosity of the
medium) leads to the increase of the velocity
of the fluid within the boundary layer.
• The Prandtl number for the temperature field
leads to decrease the thermal boundary layer.
 The concentration boundary layer has been
reduced for the effect of Schmidt number
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