UDC 536.25

V. Rajesh

EFFECTS OF MASS TRANSFER ON FLOW PAST AN IMPULSIVELY STARTED 
INFINITE VERTICAL PLATE WITH NEWTONIAN HEATING AND CHEMICAL REACTION

An exact solution to the problem of the flow due to an 
impulsive motion of an infinite vertical plate in its own plane in 
the presence of i) species concentration; ii) Newtonian heating at 
the plate; iii) first-order chemical reaction, has been derived by 
the Laplace transform technique. The influence of various parameters 
entering into the problem on the velocity field and skin friction 
for both air and water in the cases of both cooling and heating of 
the plate is discussed.

Keywords: natural convection, incompressible fluid, 
heat and mass transfer, Newtonian heating, chemical reaction.

Department of Engineering Mathematics, GITAM University, Hyderabad 
Campus, Hyderabad-502 329, A.P., India; email: v.rajesh.30@gmail.com. 
Original article submitted January 3, 2011; revision submitted October 
17, 2011.