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ISRN Computational Mathematics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 402037, 8 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/402037
Viscoelastic Effects on Free Convective Three-Dimensional Flow with Heat and Mass Transfer
1Department of Mathematics, Gauhati University, Assam, Guwahati 781014, India
2Department of Mathematics, Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills, Arunachal Pradesh, Itanagar 791112, India
Received 12 September 2011; Accepted 4 October 2011
Academic Editors: G. Bella and Z. Guo
Copyright © 2012 Rita Choudhury and Utpal Jyoti Das. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
A theoretical study of free convective three-dimensional heat and mass transfer flow of a viscoelastic fluid along a steadily moving porous vertical plate in presence of transverse sinusoidal suction velocity distribution, and uniform free stream velocity has been considered. The flow becomes three dimensional due to this suction velocity. The governing equations of the flow field are solved by using series expansion method, and the expressions for velocity field, temperature field, skin friction, heat flux in terms of Nusselt number, and mass flux in terms of Sherwood number are obtained. The effects of the viscoelastic parameter on velocity profiles and shear stress with the combination of the other flow parameters are discussed graphically.