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Finite Difference Study of MHD Stokes Problem for a Vertical Infinite Plate in a Dissipative Heat Generating Fluid with Hall and Ionslip Currents


N. Chaturvedi

Abstract

The explicit finite difference method is employed to study the effects of both the Hall and ionslip currents on a free convective flow of a viscous heat generating rotating fluid past an impulsively started infinite vertical plate, to which a strong magnetic field is applied perpendicularly. The velocity (both primary and secondary) and temperature profiles are represented graphically and the results discussed in terms of the non-dimensional parameters m (Hall parameter), (ionslip parameter), (heat source parameter), Gr(Grashof number), Er(the rotational paramenter) and Ec (the Eckert number).


(Botswana Journal of Technology: 2003 12(2): 21-31)

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