UDC 536.25

G. Palani and Kwang-Yong Kim

EFFECTS OF MASS TRANSFER ON FREE CONVECTION FLOW PAST
A SEMI-INFINITE INCLINED PLATE WITH VARIABLE SURFACE TEMPERATURE 

The unsteady free convection flow past a semi-infinite 
inclined plate with a variable surface temperature and mass flux is 
considered. The governing unsteady, two-dimensional, coupled, nonlinear 
integrodifferential equations are transformed into a set of non- dimensional 
equations which are solved numerically using an implicit finite-difference 
method. A representative set of the results obtained is displayed 
graphically to illustrate the influence of various physical parameters 
on the velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles. The local 
and average skin friction, Nusselt number, and Sherwood number are 
also presented.

Keywords: Inclined plate, Nusselt number, skin friction, Sherwood 
number, finite difference.

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 402-751, 
Republic of Korea; email: gpalani32@yahoo.co.in. Original article 
submitted May 8, 2008; revision submitted December 22, 2008.