This paper is concerned with analytical solution of one-dimensional unsteady laminar boundary layer MHD flow of a viscous incompressible fluid past an exponentially accelerated infinite vertical plate in presence of transverse magnetic field. The vertical plate and the medium of flow are considered to be porous. The fluid is assumed to be optically thin and the magnetic Reynolds number is considered small enough to neglect the induced hydromagnetic effects. The governing boundary layer equations are first converted to dimensionless form and then solved by Laplace transform technique. Numerical values of transient velocity, temperature, skin friction, and Nusselt number are illustrated and are presented in graphs for various sets of physical parametric values, namely, Grashof number, accelerating parameter, suction parameter, permeability parameter, radiation parameter, magnetic parameter, and time. It is found that the velocity decreases with increases of the suction parameter for both cases of cooling and heating of the porous plate whereas skin friction increases with increase of suction parameter.
This paper presents an analytical treatment for the unsteady one-dimensional natural convective flow past an infinite moving vertical cylinder in the presence of thermal stratification. Exact solutions of the dimensionless unsteady coupled linear governing equations are obtained, in terms of Bessel functions by the Laplace transform technique, for the tractable case of unit Prandtl number. Numerical computations for velocity, temperature, skin-friction, and Nusselt number are made for various set of physical parameters and presented in graphs. Due to the presence of thermal stratification, the fluid velocity and temperature approach steady state, whereas the corresponding flow in an unstratified fluid does not. The steady state is attained at smaller times as the stratification increases. Furthermore, in the presence of stratification, the skin-friction and Nusselt number approaches fixed value as time progresses, while for unstratified fluid, there is a gradual decrease as time increases.
This paper presents an analytical solution of unsteady one-dimensional
natural convective flow of a viscous incompressible and electrically
conducting fluid past an infinite vertical cylinder with constant
temperature and magnetic field, applied normal to the direction of flow.
Exact solutions of dimensionless unsteady linear governing equations are
obtained by using Laplace transform technique. Numerical computations for
the transient velocity, temperature, skin-friction, Nusselt number are
computed and presented in graphs for various set of physical parametric
values viz; Grashof number, Prandtl number, magnetic parameter and time.
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