Transient free convection flow past vertical cylinder with constant heat flux and mass transfer

Abstract This paper describes a one dimensional unsteady natural convection flow past an infinite vertical cylinder with heat and mass transfer under the effect of constant heat flux at the surface of the cylinder. Closed form solutions of the dimensionless unsteady linear governing boundary layer equations are obtained in terms of Bessel functions and modified Bessel functions by Laplace transform method. The numerical values of velocity, temperature and concentration profiles are obtained for different values of the physical parameters namely, thermal Grashof number, mass Grashof number, Prandtl number, Schmidt number and time and presented in graphs. Also, skin friction and Sherwood number are shown graphically and discussed. It is observed that the velocity and temperature increase unboundedly with time, while the concentration approaches steady state at larger times.