On MHD and slip flow over a rotating porous disk with variable properties

✍ Scribed by Francesco Frusteri; Emmanuel Osalusi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 361 KB
• Volume: 34
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0735-1933
• DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2007.01.004

✦ Synopsis

The steady laminar magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) flow of a viscous Newtonian and electrically conducting fluid over a rotating disk with slip boundary condition is investigated taken into account the variable fluid properties (density, (ρ), viscosity, (μ) and thermal conductivity, (κ)). These fluid properties are taken to be dependent on temperature. The governing equations, which are partial and coupled, are transformed to ordinary ones by utilizing the similarity variables introduced by von Karman and the resulting equation system is solved numerically by using a shooting method. The resulting velocity and temperature distributions are shown graphically for different value of parameters entering into the problem. The numerical values of the radial and tangential skin-friction coefficients and the rate of heat transfer coefficient are shown in tabular form.