Unsteady forced convection heat/mass transfer from a flat plate

Numerical methods are used to investigate the transient, forced convection heat/mass transfer from a finite flat plate to a steady stream of viscous, incompressible fluid. The temperature/concentration inside the plate is considered uniform. The heat/mass balance equations were solved in elliptic cylindrical coordinates by a finite difference implicit ADI method. These solutions span the parameter ranges 10 Re 400 and 0.1 Pr 10. The computations were focused on the influence of the product (aspect ratio) × (volume heat capacity ratio/Henry number) on the heat/mass transfer rate. The occurrence on the plates surface of heat/mass wake phenomena was also studied.