• EFFECTS OF THERMAL RADIATION AND HEAT SOURCE ON MHD FREE CONVECTION OVER A VERTICAL PLATE WITH THERMAL DIFFUSION AND DIFFUSION THERMO

Abstract

In the present paper, an analysis is carried out the thermal radiation and heat source effects on an unsteady magnetohydrodynamic free convection flow past an infinite vertical porous plate in the presence of thermal diffusion and diffusion thermo. A uniform magnetic field acts perpendicular to the porous surface. The Rosseland approximation has been used to describe the radiative heat flux in energy equation. The dimensionless governing equations are solved numerically using Galerkin finite element method. The effects of the different physical flow parameters on these respective flow fields are discussed through graphs and results are physically interpreted.