MHD Natural Convection Flow of Viscous Incompressible Fluid From a Vertical Flat Plate

Abstract

A two-dimensional natural convection flow of a viscous incompressible and electrically conducting fluid past a vertical impermeable flat plate is considered in presence of a uniform transverse magnetic field. The governing equations are reduced to ordinary differential equations by introducing appropriate coordinate transformations. We solve that ordinary differential equations and find the velocity profiles, temperature profile, the skin friction and nusselt number. The effects of Grashof number (Gr), Hartmann number(M) and Prandtl number(Pr) on velocity profiles and temperature profiles are shown graphically.