Lie Group Analysis of Natural Convection Heat and Mass Transfer in an Inclined Surface
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S. Sivasankaran
Bharathiar University, India
M. Bhuvaneswari
Bharathiar University, India
P. Kandaswamy
Bharathiar University, India
E. K. Ramasami
Bharathiar University, India
Published 2006-05-18
https://doi.org/10.15388/NA.2006.11.2.14759
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Keywords

Lie groups
natural convection
inclined surface
heat and mass transfer

How to Cite

Sivasankaran, S. (2006) “Lie Group Analysis of Natural Convection Heat and Mass Transfer in an Inclined Surface”, Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control, 11(2), pp. 201–212. doi:10.15388/NA.2006.11.2.14759.

Abstract

Natural convection heat transfer fluid flow past an inclined semiinfinite surface in the presence of solute concentration is investigated by Lie group analysis. The governing partial differential equations are reduced to a system of ordinary differential equations by the translation and scaling symmetries. An exact solution is obtained for translation symmetry and numerical solutions for scaling symmetry. It is found that the velocity increases and temperature and concentration of the fluid decrease with an increase in the thermal and solutal Grashof numbers. The velocity and concentration of the fluid decrease and temperature increases with increase in the Schmidt number.

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