International Journal of Dynamics of Fluids
  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 2

Free Convective MHD Flow of a Non-Newtonian Fluid Past An Infinite Vertical Plate with Constant Suction and Heat Sink

  • Author:
  • Rita Choudhury1, Debasish Dey2
  • Total Page Count: 12
  • Page Number: 133 to 144

1Department of Mathematics, Gauhati University. Guwahati-781 014, Assam, India. Email: rchoudhury66@yahoo.in

2Department of Mathematics, Girijananda Choudhury Institute of Management & Technology, Guwahti-781017, Assam, India Email: debasish41092@gmail.com

Abstract

The free convective MHD flow of a non-Newtonian electrically conducting fluid past an infinite vertical porous plate in the presence of constant suction and heat absorbing sinks has been discussed. To obtain the solutions for the velocity and temperature fields, mean skin-friction and mean rate of heat transfer the multi-parameter perturbation approximation is used. Expressions for dimensionless velocity, temperature, mean skin-friction and mean rate of heat transfer at the plate have been obtained and numerically worked out for different values of parameters involved in the solution. The mean skin-friction and mean rate of heat transfer have been presented numerically and the dimensionless velocity and dimensionless temperature have been presented graphically for various values of non-Newtonian parameters.

Keywords

Non-Newtonian, MHD flow, unsteady, Sinks, Prandtl number, multi-parameter perturbation technique