THERMO-PHYSICAL EFFECTS OF THERMAL RADIATION AND HEAT GENERATION ON FREE CONVECTIVE HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER OVER A VERTICAL PLATE

The thermo-physical effects of thermal radiation, heat generation and species concentration on Magnetohydrodynamic free convective heat and mass transfer flow over a vertical plate with variable thermal conductivity is considered. The governing partial differential equations are transformed into coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations with similarity transformations. The resulting coupled nonlinear differential equation is solved numerically by Runge-Kutta forth order with shooting technique. The effects of the thermo-physical properties on velocity, temperature and concentration profiles are illustrated graphically and numerical values of skin friction, Nusselt number and Sherwood number are presented in tables.