effects of hall current and ion-slip on unsteady mhd couette flow霍尔电流的影响,在不稳定的磁流体动力库爱特流离子滑移.pdfVIP

Open Journal of Fluid Dynamics, 2012, 2, 1-13 1 /10.4236/ojfd.2012.21001 Published Online March 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojfd) Effects of Hall Current and Ion-Slip on Unsteady MHD Couette Flow 1 2 Nirmal Ghara, Sovan Lal Maji, Sanatan Das, Rabindranath Jana , Swapan Kumar Ghosh 1Department of Applied Mathematics, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, India 2Department of Mathematics, Narajole Raj College, Narajole, India Email: jana261171@yahoo.co.in, g_swapan2002@ Received November 26, 2011; revised December 15, 2011; accepted December 28, 2011 ABSTRACT The unsteady MHD Couette flow of an incompressible viscous electrically conducting fluid between two infinite non- conducting horizontal porous plates under the boundary layer approximations has been studied with the consideration of both Hall currents and ion-slip. An analytical solution of the governing equations describing the flow is obtained by the Laplace transform method. It is seen that the primary velocity decreases while the magnitude of secondary velocity in- creases with increase in Hall parameter. It is also seen that both the primary velocity and the magnitude of secondary velocity decrease with increase in ion-slip parameter. It is observed that a thin boundary layer is formed near the sta- tionary plate for large values of squared Hartmann number and Reynolds number. The thickness of this boundary layer increases with increase in either Hall parameter or ion-slip parameter. Keywords: MHD; Couette Flow; Porous Plate; Hall Current; Ion-Slip; Hartmann Number a