Finite Difference Study of MHD Stokes Problem for a Vertical Infinite Plate in a Dissipative Heat Generating Fluid with Hall and Ionslip Currents

Abstract

The explicit finite difference method is employed to study the effects of both the Hall and ionslip currents on a free convective flow of a viscous heat generating rotating fluid past an impulsively started infinite vertical plate, to which a strong magnetic field is applied perpendicularly. The velocity (both primary and secondary) and temperature profiles are represented graphically and the results discussed in terms of the non-dimensional parameters m (Hall parameter), (ionslip parameter), (heat source parameter), Gr(Grashof number), Er(the rotational paramenter) and Ec (the Eckert number).


(Botswana Journal of Technology: 2003 12(2): 21-31)