H.A. Attia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.1, A.M.A. Al-kaisy1 and K.M. Ewis1

1Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Fayoum University, 63514 Fayuom, Egypt


 

Received: June 19, 2007
Accepted: October 13, 2010
Publication Date: June 1, 2011

Download Citation: ||https://doi.org/10.6180/jase.2011.14.2.01  


ABSTRACT


In the present study, the unsteady Couette flow with heat transfer of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid under the influence of an exponentially decreasing pressure gradient is studied. The parallel plates are assumed to be porous and subjected to a uniform suction from above and injection from below while the fluid is acted upon by an external uniform magnetic field applied perpendicular to the plates. The equations of motion are solved analytically to yield the velocity distributions for both the fluid and dust particles. The energy equations for both the fluid and dust particles including the viscous and Joule dissipation terms, are solved numerically using finite differences to get the temperature distributions.


Keywords: Couettee Flow, Magnetohydrodynamics, Heat Transfer, Dusty Fluid, Numerical Solution


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