JOURNAL: The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

ARTICLE TITLE : Homotopy analysis of heat and mass transfer boundary layer flow through a non-porous channel with chemical reaction and heat generation


ABSTRACT: This paper describes the two-dimensional flow of an incompressible viscous fluid through a non-porous channel with heat generation and a chemical reaction. Employing similarity transformations the governing non-linear partial differential equations are solved both analytically and numerically. Analytically, we used the homotopy analysis method and numerically, we used the Matlab in-built boundary value solver bvp4c. The effects of the Reynolds number Re, the Eckert number Ec, heat generation parameter [delta], chemical reaction parameter [gamma], and the local Grashof number Gc on the velocity, temperature, and concentration fields are shown through tables and graphs and discussed.


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