Journal of Applied Mathematics
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 414830, 12 pages
Thermal Radiation and Buoyancy Effects on Heat and Mass Transfer over a Semi-Infinite Stretching Surface with Suction and Blowing
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Venda, P. Bag X5050, Thohoyandou 0950, South Africa
Received 20 June 2008; Revised 1 September 2008; Accepted 16 October 2008
Academic Editor: Mark Petersen
Copyright © 2008 S. Shateyi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This study sought to investigate thermal radiation and buoyancy effects on heat and mass transfer over a semi-infinite stretching surface with suction and blowing. Appropriate transformations were employed to transform the governing differential equations to nonsimilar form. The transformed equations were solved numerically by an efficient implicit, iterative finite-difference scheme. A parametric study illustrating the influence of wall suction or
injection, radiation, Schmidt number and Grashof number on the fluid velocity, temperature and concentration is conducted. We conclude from the study that the flow is appreciably influenced by thermal radiation, Schmidt number, as well as fluid injection or suction.