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Combined heat and mass transfer on free, forced, and mixed convection flow along a porous wedge with magnetic effect in the presence of chemical reaction is investigated. The flow field characteristics are analyzed by the Runge-Kutta-Gill scheme with the shooting method as well as the local non-similarity method up to the third level of truncation, which are used to reduce the governing partial differential equations into nine ordinary differential equations. The governing boundary layer equations are converted to a dimensionless form by Falkner-Skan transformations. Because of the effect of suction/injection on the wall of the wedge with buoyancy force and variable wall temperature, the flow field is locally non-similar. Numerical calculations up to the third order level of truncation are carried out as a special case for different values of dimensionless parameters. Effects of the magnetic field strength in the presence of chemical reaction with variable wall temperature and concentration on the dimensionless velocity, temperature and concentration profiles are shown graphically.
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Loganathan, P., Puvi-Arasu, P. & Kandasamy, R. Local non-similarity solution to impact of chemical reaction on MHD mixed convection heat and mass transfer flow over porous wedge in the presence of suction / injection. Appl. Math. Mech.-Engl. Ed. 31, 1517–1526 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10483-010-1380-8
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