HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER FROM A PERMEABLE CYLINDER IN A POROUS MEDIUM WITH MAGNETIC FIELD AND HEAT GENERATION/ABSORPTION EFFECTS

Abstract

We formulate the problem of coupled heat and mass transfer by natural convection from a horizontal cylinder embedded in a uniform porous medium in the presence of an external magnetic field and internal heat generation or absorption effects. The cylinder surface is maintained at a constant temperature and a constant concentration and is permeable to allow for possible fluid wall suction or blowing. The resulting governing equations are nondimensionalized and transformed into a nonsimilar form and then solved numerically by an implicit, iterative, finite-difference method. Comparisons with previously published work are performed and excellent agreement is obtained. A parametric study of the physical parameters is conducted and a representative set of numerical results for the stream function, temperature, concentration profiles, and the Nusselt and Sherwood numbers is illustrated graphically to show interesting features of the solutions.