Radiation Effects on Exponentially Accelerated Vertical Plate with Uniform Mass Diffusion

Abstract

Thermal radiation effects on unsteady free convective flow of a viscous incompressible flow past an exponentially accelerated infinite isothermal vertical plate with uniform mass diffusion have been studied. An exact solution to the dimensionless governing equations has been obtained by the Laplace transform method. The effects of velocity, temperature and concentration are studied for different parameters like the thermal radiation parameter, Schmidt number, thermal Grashof number, mass Grashof number and time. It is observed that the velocity increases with an increase in the parameter ‘ a ’.