An attempt is made to study the effects of chemical reaction and combined buoyancy effects on an unsteady MHD mixed convective flow along an infinite vertical porous plate in the presence of hall current. A uniform magnetic field is applied in a direction normal to the porous plate. The governing coupled non-linear partial differential equations are solved using an efficient Galerkin finite element method. With the help of graphs, the effects of the various important parameters entering into the problem on the velocity, temperature, and concentration fields within the boundary layer are discussed. Also the effects of the pertinent parameters on the skin-friction coefficient and rates of heat and mass transfer in terms of the Nusselt number and Sherwood number are presented numerically in a tabular form. The results obtained show that the velocity, temperature, and concentration fields are appreciably influenced by the presence of chemical reaction, hall current, heat, and mass transfer. It is observed that the effect of Schmidt number and chemical reaction parameter is to decrease the velocity and concentration profiles in the boundary layer while the velocity profiles are increasing with increasing of hall parameter, Grashof numbers for heat and mass transfer. There is also considerable effect of hall current and chemical reaction on skin-friction coefficient and Nusselt number. In the present analysis various comparisons with previously published work are performed and the results are found to be in a good agreement.
In this investigation, the numerical results of a mixed convective MHD chemically reacting flow past a vertical plate embedded in a porous medium are presented in the presence of cross diffusion effects and convective boundary condition. Instead of the commonly used conditions of constant surface temperature or constant heat flux, a convective boundary condition is employed which makes this study unique and the results more realistic and practically useful. The momentum, energy, and concentration equations derived as coupled second-order, ordinary differential equations are solved numerically using a highly accurate and thoroughly tested element free Galerkin method (EFGM). The effects of the Soret number, Dufour number, Grashof number for heat and mass transfer, the viscous dissipation parameter, Schmidt number, chemical reaction parameter, permeability parameter and Biot number on the dimensionless velocity, temperature and concentration profiles are presented graphically. In addition, numerical results for the local skin-friction coefficient, the local Nusselt number, and the local Sherwood number are discussed through tabular forms. The discussion focuses on the physical interpretation of the results as well as their comparison with the results of previous studies.
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