Abstract:
This article investigates the effects of
radiation and heat generation on magnetohydrodynamic(
MHD) natural convection flow
of an incompressible viscous electrically
conducting fluid along a vertically placed flat
plate in presence of viscous dissipation and
heat conduction. Appropriate transformations
were employed to transform governing
equations of this flow into dimensionless form
and then solved using the implicit finite
difference method with Keller box scheme. The
resulting numerical solutions of transformed
governing equations are presented graphically
in terms of velocity profile, temperature
distribution, skin friction coefficient and
surface temperature and the effects of magnetic
parameter (M), radiation parameter (R),
Prandtl number (Pr) and heat generation
parameter (Q) and viscous dissipation
parameter (N) on the flow have been studied
with the help of graphs.
