Combined Effects of Thermal Radiation and MHD of Flow Past an Accelerated Vertical Plate in a Rotating Fluid with Variable Temperature

Annamalai Ramachandran Vijayalakshmi, Albert Paul Florence Kamalam

Abstract: An analysis is performed to study the combined effects of thermal radiation and MHD on unsteady flow past a uniformly accelerated vertical plate in a rotating fluid in the presence of thermal radiation. An exact solution is obtained for the axial and transverse components of the velocity by defining a complex velocity. The effects of magnetic field; rotation; radiation; free-convection parameters and components on the plate are discussed.

Keywords: MHD, Thermal Radiation, rotation, accelerated vertical plate, heat transfer