TITLE:
Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Free Convective Flow past an Infinite Vertical Porous Plate with Joule Heating
AUTHORS:
Sigey K. Johana, Okelo A. Jeconia, Gatheri K. Francis, Ngesa O. Joel
KEYWORDS:
Incompressible Flow; Electrically Conducting; Joule Heating
JOURNAL NAME:
Applied Mathematics,
Vol.4 No.5,
May
21,
2013
ABSTRACT: This work addresses the problem of Magnetohydrodynamic laminar unsteady flow of an incompressible electrically conducting fluid past an infinite vertical porous plate. It investigates how joule heating affects the velocity and temperature profiles of the fluid flow subjected to transverse magnetic field. The research examines specific equations of MHD flow which are solved numerically by finite difference approximations, using computer programme. The numerical results of this study reveal that an increase in joules heating parameter causes an increase in the velocity and temperature profiles uniformly near the plate but remain constantly distributed away from the plate, implying that the flow field of the MHD free convective flow is influenced substantially by the strength of Joules heating near the wall of the plate and at the mainstream.