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Heat and Mass Transfer Effects on Unsteady Magnetohydrodynamics Stokes Free-Convective Flow Past an Infinite Vertical Porous Plate in a Rotating System

Received: 30 August 2022    Accepted: 12 October 2022    Published: 24 October 2022
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Abstract

In this paper, Stokes first problem for an unsteady MHD free convective flow of a viscous incompressible fluid past an infinite vertical porous plate in the presence of a transverse variable magnetic field in a rotating system has been studied. The dimensionless governing partial differential equations are solved numerically by the finite difference method based on the forward-time central-space scheme. The resulting difference equations are simulated in MATLAB software to obtain the profiles of the flow variables. The skin-friction coefficient and the rates of heat and mass transfer are also computed. The simulation results are presented graphically and in tabular forms, and also discussed. The main findings are that an increase in the joule heating parameter results in a uniform increase in the velocity and temperature profiles near the plate but remain constantly distributed away from the plate. This observation implies that the flow is influenced substantially by the strength of joule heating near the plate and in the bulk of the fluid. The results obtained in this study regarding thermal and mass diffusion effects can be applied in the industry, for instance, in the separation of isotopes contained in a mixture of very light molecular-weight gases (for instance, hydrogen and helium) and medium molecular-weight gases (for instance, nitrogen and air).

Published in American Journal of Applied Mathematics (Volume 10, Issue 5)
DOI 10.11648/j.ajam.20221005.13
Page(s) 212-222
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Keywords

MHD-Flow, Rotating-System, Stokes-Problem, Vertical-Porous-Plate, Variable-Magnetic-Field, Skin-Friction, Heat-Transfer, Mass-Transfer

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  • Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya

  • Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya

  • Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya

  • Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya

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