Unsteady Natural Convective Flow over an Impulsively Started Semi-Infinite Vertical Plate in the Presence of Porous Medium with Chemical Reaction

An investigation is carried out to analyze the effects of heat and mass transfer over an impulsively started vertical plate in the presence of porous medium with chemical reaction. The unsteady, non-linear, coupled partial differential equations are solved by implicit finite difference scheme of Crank Nicolson type. The influence of various parameters like Prandtl number, Schmidt number, first order chemical reaction on the velocity, temperature and concentration are analyzed. The local skin friction, local Nusselt number, local Sherwood number, average skin friction, average Nusselt number and average Sherwood numbers are investigated. It is observed that the velocity and concentration boundary layer decreases with increasing chemical reaction. An increase in the Schmidt number reduces the concentration boundary layer thickness.