Effects of Thermal Diffusion on Viscoelastic Fluid Flow through a Vertical Flat Plate

Viscoelastic fluid flow through a semi-infinite vertical rigid plate with diffusion-thermo and thermal-diffusion has been studied. To obtain the non-dimensional, coupled non-linear momentum, energy and concentration equations, the usual transformations have been used. The obtained non-dimensional equations have been solved by implicit finite difference technique. The stability and convergence analysis have been analyzed. From the above analysis, parameters restriction have been obtained to calculate the converge results. The effects of the various parameters entering into the problem on the velocity, temperature and concentration are shown graphically. Finally, a qualitative comparison with the published results is shown in tabular form. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.