Dissipation effects on MHD free convection flow past a semi-infinite vertical plate

✍ Scribed by Takhar, H. S. ;Soundalgekar, V. M.

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 268 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-6994
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00386469

✦ Synopsis

Viscous and Joule dissipation effects are considered on MHD free convection flow past a semi-infinite isothermal vertical plate under a uniform transverse magnetic field. Series solutions in powers of a dissipation number « (-~g[3x/cp) have been employed and the resulting ordinary differential equations have been solved numerically. The velocity and temperature profiles are shown on graphs and the numerical values of q5~(0)/qbó(0) (dõ, temperature function) have been tabulated. It is observed that the dissipation effects in the MHD case become more dominant with increasing values of the magnetic field parameter )t (=/v/~/(Gr~/4) 1/2) and the Prandtl number.