Journal of Taibah University for Science (Dec 2019)

Unsteady hydromagnetic-free convection flow with suction/injection

  • Basant K. Jha,
  • Luqman A. Azeez,
  • Michael O. Oni

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/16583655.2018.1545624
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 136 – 145

Abstract

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This article analyses the unsteady hydromagnetic free convection flow near impulsive as well as accelerated motion of the infinite vertical porous plate. The governing momentum and energy partial differential equations exhibiting the physics of the flow formation are presented. Using suitable dimensionless parameters, the equations are transformed to their corresponding dimensionless form and solved exactly in the Laplace domain using the well-known Laplace transform technique. However, the Riemann-sum approximation method is used to invert the solution from the Laplace domain to time domain due of the complexity of the solutions obtained in the Laplace domain. The effect of various pertinent parameters such as suction/injection, Hartmann number, Grashof number, and Prandtl number is discussed with the aid of line graphs.

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