Theoretical Analysis of the Effects of Exothermic Catalytic Chemical Reaction on Transient Mixed Convection Flow along a Curved Shaped Surface

The present problem addressed the transient behavior of convective heat and mass transfer characteristics across a curved surface under the influence of exothermic catalytic chemical reactions. The governing non-linear mathematical model wastransformed into a convenient form with the help of a primitive variable formulation. The final primitive formed model wassolved numerically by applying the finite difference method. The analysis of the above said computed numerical data in terms of oscillatory heat transfer, skin friction, and oscillatory mass transfer for various emerging parameters, such as the mixed convection parameter [Formula: see text] , modified mixed convection parameter [Formula: see text] , index parameter [Formula: see text] , activation energy parameter [Formula: see text] , exothermicparameter [Formula: see text] , temperature relative parameter [Formula: see text] , chemical reaction parameter [Formula: see text] , and Schmidt number [Formula: see text] is plotted in graphical form. An excellent agreement is depicted for oscillatory heat transfer behavior at the large value of activation energy [Formula: see text]. The amplitude of heat transfer and prominent fluctuating response in mass transfer with a certain height is found at each value of the index parameter [Formula: see text] with a good alteration. An increase in the activation energy led to an increase in the surface temperature, which yielded more transient heat transfer in the above-said mechanism. The main novelty of the current study is that first, we ensured the numerical results for the steady state heat and fluid flow and then these obtained results wereused in the unsteady part to obtain numerical results for the transient behavior of the heat and mass transfer mechanism.