Heat Transfer Effects on Free Convection of Viscous Dissipative Fluid Flow Over an Inclined Plate with Thermal Radiation in the Presence of Induced Magnetic Field

Abstract

The principal objective of the present paper is to know the reaction of thermal radiation and the effects of magnetic fields on a viscous dissipative free convection fluid flow past an inclined infinite plate in the presence of an induced magnetic field. The Galerkin finite element technique is applied to solve the nonlinear coupled partial differential equations and effects of thermal radiation and other physical and flow parameters on velocity, induced magnetic field, along with temperature profiles are explained through graphs. It is noticed that as the thermal radiation increases velocity and temperature profiles decrease and the induced magnetic field profiles increases.

Keywords

• thermal radiation
• induced magnetic field
• magnetic prandtl number
• free convection
• galerkin finite element method
• viscous dissipation