Radiation Absorption and Chemical Reaction Effects on Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Flow of Jeffery Fluid in an Infinite Vertical Plate

Abstract

The influence of radiation absorption and chemical reaction on unsteady MHD 
convective Jeffery flow of a viscous, electrically conducting and incompressible 
fluid is analyzed. The governing equations that describe the flow formation, heat 
and mass transfer are modeled as Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) and solved 
numerically using the Finite Difference Method (FDM). The effect of parameters 
associated with the flow of the fluid velocity, temperature and concentration were 
studied with the aid of graphs. It is seen that the momentum boundary layer 
increases as the value of radiation and Jeffery parameters are increased while the 
velocity of the fluid falls for higher values of the chemical reaction parameter. Also, 
the temperature of the fluid rises as radiation becomes significant in the thermal 
boundary layer while increase in chemical reaction parameter causes a decrease 
is the concentration of the fluid.