%0 Journal Article %T MHD Heat and Mass Transfer of Chemical Reaction Fluid Flow over a Moving Vertical Plate in Presence of Heat Source with Convective Surface Boundary Condition %A B. R. Rout %A S. K. Parida %A S. Panda %J International Journal of Chemical Engineering %D 2013 %I Hindawi Publishing Corporation %R 10.1155/2013/296834 %X This paper aims to investigate the influence of chemical reaction and the combined effects of internal heat generation and a convective boundary condition on the laminar boundary layer MHD heat and mass transfer flow over a moving vertical flat plate. The lower surface of the plate is in contact with a hot fluid while the stream of cold fluid flows over the upper surface with heat source and chemical reaction. The basic equations governing the flow, heat transfer, and concentration are reduced to a set of ordinary differential equations by using appropriate transformation for variables and solved numerically by Runge-Kutta fourth-order integration scheme in association with shooting method. The effects of physical parameters on the velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles are illustrated graphically. A table recording the values of skin friction, heat transfer, and mass transfer at the plate is also presented. The discussion focuses on the physical interpretation of the results as well as their comparison with previous studies which shows good agreement as a special case of the problem. 1. Introduction The study of convective flow with heat and mass transfer under the influence of magnetic field and chemical reaction with heat source has practical applications in many areas of science and engineering. This phenomenon plays an important role in chemical industry, petroleum industry, cooling of nuclear reactors, and packed-bed catalytic reactors. Natural convection flows occur frequently in nature due to temperature differences, concentration differences, and also due to combined effects. The concentration difference may sometimes produce qualitative changes to the rate of heat transfer. The study of heat generation in many fluids due to exothermic and endothermic chemical reactions and natural convection with heat generenation can be added to combustion modeling. In this direction Vajrvelu and Nayfeh [1] studied the hydromagnetic convection at a cone and at a wedge in presence of temperature-dependent heat generation and absorption effect. Chamkha [2] later examined the effect of heat generation or absorption on hydromagnetic three-dimensional free convection flow over a vertical stretching surface. The flow through porous media is a subject of most common interest and has emerged as a separate intensive research area because heat and mass transfer in porous medium is very much prevalent in nature and can also be encountered in many technological processes. In this context the effect of temperature-dependent heat sources has been studied by %U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijce/2013/296834/