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On MHD heat and mass transfer over a moving vertical plate with a convective surface boundary condition
Author(s) -
Makinde O. D.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the canadian journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1939-019X
pISSN - 0008-4034
DOI - 10.1002/cjce.20369
Subject(s) - magnetohydrodynamics , mechanics , boundary layer , partial differential equation , ordinary differential equation , convective heat transfer , mass transfer , boundary value problem , flow (mathematics) , heat transfer , shooting method , physics , convection , magnetic field , similarity solution , mathematics , classical mechanics , mathematical analysis , differential equation , quantum mechanics
In this paper, the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) boundary layer flow with heat and mass transfer over a moving vertical plate in the presence of magnetic field and a convective heat exchange at the surface with the surrounding has been studied. The similarity solution is used to transform the system of partial differential equations, describing the problem under consideration, into a boundary value problem of coupled ordinary differential equations, and an efficient numerical technique is implemented to solve the reduced system. The results are presented graphically and the conclusion is drawn that the flow field and other quantities of physical interest are significantly influenced by these parameters.