Bulletin of Pure & Applied Sciences- Physics
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 37d
  • Issue: 2

Rotating MHD flow: An exact solution by hodograph transformation

1Department of Physics, Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav College, Ranchi-834001, Jharkhand, India. E-mail: profmanoj@rediffmail.com

2Department of Physics, P.K. Roy Memorial College, Dhanbad-826004, Jharkhand, India. E-mail: sayan12350@gmail.com

3Research Scholar, University Department of Physics, Ranchi University, Ranchi, 834008, Jharkhand, India. E-mail: mantuprajapati15@gmail.com

*Corresponding author: Mantu Prajapati Research Scholar, University Department of Physics, Ranchi University, Ranchi-834008, Jharkhand, India E-mail: mantuprajapati15@gmail.com

Online published on 18 December, 2018.

Abstract

The motion of a homogenous, rotating, incompressible, second grade fluid with finite electrical conductivity through porous media in the presence of transverse magnetic field has been considered. For steady plane transverse flow the equations of motion have been recast in hodograph plane. Further the flow equations have been obtained in terms of Legendre transform function of the stream function. Lastly some examples have been taken to illustrate the developed theory and their streamlines are also plotted.

Keywords

MHD, exact solution, rotating frame, hodograph transformation, legendre transform function