On MHD boundary‐layer flow and mass transfer past a vertical plate in a porous medium with constant heat flux

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow - 2009
O.D.Makinde1
1Faculty of Engineering, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa

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PurposeThe hydromagnetic mixed convection flow of an incompressible viscous electrically conducting fluid and mass transfer over a vertical porous plate with constant heat flux embedded in a porous medium is investigated.Design/methodology/approachUsing the Boussinesq and boundary‐layer approximations, the fluid equations for momentum, energy balance and concentration governing the problem are formulated. These equations are solved numerically by using the most effective Newton–Raphson shooting method along with fourth‐order Runge–Kutta integration algorithm.FindingsIt was found that for positive values of the buoyancy parameters, the skin friction increased with increasing values of both the Eckert number (Ec) and the magnetic field intensity parameter (M) and decreased with increasing values of both the Schmidt number (Sc) and the permeability parameter (K).Practical implicationsA very useful source of information for researchers on the subject of hydromagnetic flow in porous media.Originality/valueThis paper illustrates the effects of magnetic field on mixed convective boundary layer flow past a vertical plate embedded in a saturated porous medium with mass transfer and a constant heat flux.

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