• HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER EFFECTS ON UNSTEADY MHD FREE CONVECTIVE FLOW ALONG A VERTICAL POROUS PLATE WITH INTERNAL HEAT GENERATION AND VARIABLE SUCTION

Abstract

Aim of this paper is to investigate the flow of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid along a porous vertical isothermal non-conducting plate with variable suction and internal heat generation in the presence of transverse magnetic field. The governing equations of motion, energy and concentration are transformed into ordinary differential equations using similarity parameters and then solved numerically using fourth ordered Runge-Kutta method along with shooting technique. The effects of various physical parameters on velocity field, temperature field and concentration distribution have been studied and results are presented graphically and discussed quantitatively. The values of skin friction coefficient, Nusselt number and Sherwood number for various values of parameters are presented through tables.