RADIATION AND THERMAL DIFFUSION EFFECTS ON VISCO-ELASTIC FLUID PAST A POROUS PLATE WITH CHEMICAL REACTION AND HEAT GENERATION

A free convective two dimensional MHD boundary layer flow of a non-Newtonian (visco-elastic) fluid past a vertical porous plate have been thoroughly researched in this paper. The thermal diffusion Effects are also analyzed in presence of chemical reaction and radiation. A steady suction pressure is maintained at the plate. A singular perturbation method has been used to solve the problem. The analytical results are obtained for different values of the various dimensionless parameters entering into the flow problem and discussed quantitatively.