Title

Hydro-Magnetic Convection Heat Transfer In A Micropolar Fluid Over A Vertical Plate

Keywords

Convection heat transfer; Hall currents; Internal heat generation/absorption.; MHD flow; Micropolar fluid; Ohmic heating

Abstract

The combined effect of Hall current, Ohmic heating and suction/injection on the hydro-magnetic free convective heat transfer in a micropolar boundary layer flow past a vertical plate is analyzed. The fluid is assumed to be viscous, incompressible and electrically conducting with a strong magnetic field. Using the modified Ohm's law and the Bossinesqapproximation the governing equations of the problem are transformed into a system of non-linear ordinary differential equations by introducing a suitable similarity transformation. The resulting boundary value problem is solved numerically by Nachtsheim-Swigert shooting technique with a sixth order Runge- Kutta iteration scheme. The results are obtainedto study the effects of the governing parameters, suction/injection parameter(fw), magnetic parameter(M), Hall current parameter(m), material parameter(N1, microrotational parameter(G), the Prandtl number(Pr) and the Brinkman number(B) on the transport behaviors of the fluid. That is a parametric study is performed to illustrate the influence of these parameters on the velocity and temperature distribution as well as the local skin-friction and the localNusselt number. Furthermore, the numerical solutions obtained in this study are compared with the existing results in the literature for some special values of Pr and the results are found to be in a good agreement.

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Publication Title

Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics

Volume

6

Issue

2

Number of Pages

285-299

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.36884/jafm.6.02.19529

Socpus ID

84880396093 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84880396093

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