Effects of Variable Viscosity on Hydromagnetic Boundary Layer along a Continuously Moving Vertical Plate in the Presence of Radiation and Chemical Reaction.docVIP

Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications, 2013, 5, 5-9 5 /10.4236/jemaa.2013.51002 Published Online January 2013 (/journal/jemaa) Effects of Variable Viscosity on Hydromagnetic Boundary Layer along a Continuously Moving Vertical Plate in the Presence of Radiation and Chemical Reaction Utpal Jyoti Das Department of Mathematics, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Email: utpaljyotidas@yahoo.co.in Received November 6 , 2012; revised December 7 , 2012; revised December 18 , 2012 th th th ABSTRACT The flow and heat transfer of an incompressible viscous electrically conducting fluid over a continuously moving verti- cal infinite plate with uniform suction and heat flux in porous medium, taking account of the effects of the variable vis- cosity, has been considered. The solutions are obtained for velocity, temperature, concentration and skin friction. It is found that the velocity increases as the viscosity of air or porous parameter increases whereas velocity decreases when Schmidt number increases. The skin friction coefficient is computed and discussed for various values of the parameters. Keywords: MHD; Variable Viscosity; Radiation; Porous Medium; Schmidt Number 1. Introduction subject to a magnetic field, the rate of cooling can be controlled and final product of desired characteristics can be achieved. Another important application of hydro- magnetics to metallurgy lies in the purification of molten metals from non-metallic inclusions by the application of a magnetic field. Kumar et al. [5] studied hydromagnetic flow and heat transfer on a continuously moving vertical plate. Sharma and Mathur [6] investigated steady laminar free convection flow of an electrically conducting fluid along a porous hot vertical infinite plate in the presence of heat source or sink. On