TY  - EJOU
AU  - Kumaresan, E. 
AU  - Kumar, A .G. Vijaya 

TI  - AN EXACT SOLUTION ON UNSTEADY MHD VISCOELASTIC FLUID  FLOW PAST AN INFINITE VERTICAL PLATE IN THE PRESENCE OF  THERMAL RADIATION
T2  - Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer

PY  - 2017
VL  - 8
IS  - 1
SN  - 2151-8629

AB  - A study has been carried out to analyse an unsteady free convective chemically reacting, MHD Visco-elastic fluid (Walter’s liquid-B model) flow past 
an infinite vertical plate in the presence of thermal radiation with uniform temperature and species diffusion. The dimensionless governing partial 
differential equations are solved by using Laplace transform technique. The effects of different physical parameters like visco-elastic parameter, 
chemical reaction parameter, Magnetic field parameter, thermal Grashof number, mass Grashof number and time are discussed by plotting the velocity 
profiles for both cooling  (<i>G<sub>r</sub></i> ＞0, <i>G<sub>m</sub></i> ＞ 0) and heating of the plate (<i>G<sub>r</sub></i> ＜ 0, <i>G<sub>m</sub></i> ＜ 0)  while the temperature, concentration, Sherwood number and 
Nusselt number also analysed through graphs. It is observed that increasing viscoelastic and chemical reaction parameter the velocity is increasing for 
cooling of the plate but the reverse effect to be found in heating of the plate. An increase in the Prandtl number and radiation parameter is found to 
decrease the velocity and temperature but increasing in Nusselt number.
KW  - <i>Exact solution
KW  -  Chemical reaction
KW  -  MHD
KW  -  viscoelastic fluid
KW  -  Heat and Mass transfer
KW  -  free convection
KW  -  thermal radiation</i>

DO  - 10.5098/hmt.8.9