Effects of generative / destructive chemical reaction and temperature dependent viscosity of non-Newtonian fluids on dual-diffusion convection in a porous medium
Driss Achemlal  1@  , Mohammed Sriti  2, *@  , Mohamed El Haroui * , Elyazid Flilihi * @
1 : National School of Applied Sciences - Al Hoceima, Civil Engineering and Energetics Department .  -  Site web
Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées d'Al Hoceima BP 03, Ajdir Al-Hoceima, Maroc -  Maroc
2 : Engineering Sciences Laboratory, Polydisciplinary Faculty of Taza.  -  Site web
Polydisciplinary Faculty of Taza, Taza, Maroc -  Maroc
* : Auteur correspondant

In this work we study the combined free convection, due to thermal and species diffusion, of a viscous incompressible
non Newtonian fluid over a vertical plate embedded in a saturated porous medium with three thermal states
of the surface and a constant concentration in the presence of a chemical reaction. The effect of temperature
dependent viscosity is also investigated. The Ostwald-de Waele power-law model is used to characterize the non- Newtonian fluid behavior. The governing boundary layer equations along with the boundary conditions are first cast
into a dimensionless form by a unique similarity transformation and the resulting coupled differential equations
are then solved numerically by a computational program based on the fifth order Runge-Kutta scheme with shooting
iteration technique. The results are illustrated and the physical aspect is discussed for temperature and concentration
profiles, as well as the Nusselt and Sherwood numbers for various values of the parameters, which govern
the problem.


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