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American Journal of Computational Mathematics , 2011, 1, 18-25 doi:10.4236/ajcm.2011.11003 Published Online March 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ajcm) Conjugate Effects of Radiation and Joule Heating on Magnetohydrodynamic Free Convection Flow along a Sphere with Heat Generation 1 2 3 Md Miraj Ali , Md Abdul Alim , Laek Sazzad Andallah 1 Department of Mathematics, Dhaka Commerce College, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2Department of Mathematics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka , Bangladesh 3Department of Mathematics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh E-mail : mirajaknd@, maalim@math.buet.ac.bd, sazzad67@ Received February 11, 2011; revised February 24, 2011; accepted March 1, 2011 Abstract The conjugate effects of radiation and joule heating on magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) free convection flow along a sphere with heat generation have been investigated in this paper. The governing equations are trans- formed into dimensionless non-similar equations by using set of suitable transformations and solved numer- ically by the finite difference method along with Newton’s linearization approximation. Attention has been focused on the evaluation of shear stress in terms of local skin friction and rate of heat transfer in terms of local Nusselt number, velocity as well as temperature profiles. Numerical results have been shown graphi- cally for some selected values of parameters set consisting of heat generation parameter Q, radiation para- meter Rd, magnetic parameter M , joule heating parameter J and the Prandtl number Pr . Keywords: Natural Convection, Thermal Rad