MHD Free Convection Flow Through Porous Medium in a Vertical Channel

Hari Priya.G*, Bhuvana Vijaya.R**, Siva Prasad.R***
* Research Scholar, Department of Mathematics, Research Scholar, JNTUA, Anantapuramu, Andhra Pradesh.
** Department of Mathematics, JNTUA, Anantapuramu, Andhra Pradesh.
*** Department of Mathematics, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapuramu, Andhra Pradesh.
Periodicity:July - September'2014
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jmat.3.3.3107

Abstract

The effect of radiation on MHD free convection three dimensional flow in a vertical channel filled with porous medium has been studied. The authors have considerd an electrically conducting incompressible viscous fluid in a parallel plate channel bounded by a loosely packed porous medium. The fluid is driven by a uniform pressure gradient parallel to the channel plates and the entire flow field is subjected to a uniform inclined magnetic field of strength H inclined at an 0 angle of inclination a with the normal to the boundaries in the transverse xy-plane. The temperature of one of the plates varies periodically and the temperature difference of the plates is high enough to induce radiative heat transfer. The effects of various parameters on the velocity profiles, the skin friction, temperature field, rate of heat transfer in terms of their amplitude and phase angles are shown graphically.

Keywords

Steady Hydro Magnetic Flows, Three Dimensional Flows, Parallel Plate Channel, Porous Medium, Radiative Heat Transfer, Optically Thin Fluid, MHD (Magnetohydrodynamics).

How to Cite this Article?

Priya, G.H., Vijaya, R.B., and Prasad, R.S. (2014). Mhd Free Convection Flow Through Porous Medium in a Vertical Channel. i-manager’s Journal on Mathematics, 3(3), 21-33. https://doi.org/10.26634/jmat.3.3.3107

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