Radiation effects on flow past an exponentially accelerated isothermal vertical plate with mass flux

Thermal radiation effects on unsteady flow of a viscous incompressible fluid past an exponentially accelerated infinite isothermal vertical plate with uniform mass flux has been studied. The fluid considered here is a gray, absorbing-emitting radiation but a non-scattering medium. The plate temperature is raised to Tw and the concentration level near the plate is also made to be at a constant rate. An exact solution to the dimensionless governing equations has been obtained by the Laplace transform method, when the plate is exponentially accelerated with a velocity […] in its own plane. The velocity, temperature and concentration fields are studied for different physical parameters such as the thermal Grashof number, mass Grashof number, Schmidt number, a and time. It is observed that the velocity increases with increasing values of a or t.