Wei-Chung Tien1, Yue-Tzu Yang1, Cha’o-Kuang Chen1,2
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.85, No.5, pp. 447-462, 2012, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2012.085.447
Abstract Both buoyancy effects of thermal and mass diffusion in the natural convection flow about a vertical plate are considered in this paper. The non-linear coupled differential governing equations for velocity, temperature and concentration fields are solved by using the homotopy analysis method. Without the need of iteration, the obtained solution is in the form of an infinite power series which indicates those series have high accuracy when comparing it with other-generated by the traditional method. The impact of the Prandtl number, Schmidt number and the buoyancy parameter on the flow are widely discussed in detail. More >
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