Radiation Effects on an Unsteady MHD Convective Flow Past a Semi-Infinite Vertical Permeable Moving Plate Embedded in a Porous Medium with Viscous Dissipation

Murali GUNDAGANI; Sivaiah SHERI; Ajit PAUL; Marpadaga Chenna Krishna REDDY

Authors

Murali GUNDAGANI Department of Mathematics, SHIATS University, Allahabad
Sivaiah SHERI Department of Mathematics, GITAM University, Hyderabad
Ajit PAUL Department of Mathematics, SHIATS University, Allahabad
Marpadaga Chenna Krishna REDDY Department of Mathematics, Osmania University, Hyderabad

Keywords:

MHD, radiation, porous medium, viscous dissipation, finite element method

Abstract

The work presents an analysis of unsteady, two-dimensional, laminar, boundary-layer flow of a viscous, incompressible, electrically conducting and radiating fluid along a semi-infinite vertical permeable moving plate. Heat and mass transfer is analyzed by taking into account the effect of viscous dissipation. The dimensionless governing equations for this investigation are solved numerically by a finite element method. The effects of the various parameters on the velocity, temperature and concentration profiles are presented graphically and values of skin-friction, Nusselt number and Sherwood number for various values of physical parameters are presented in tables.

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Author Biographies

Sivaiah SHERI, Department of Mathematics, GITAM University, Hyderabad

Department of Mathematics

Ajit PAUL, Department of Mathematics, SHIATS University, Allahabad

Department of Mathematics

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