UNSTEADY MHD COUETTE FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER BETWEEN PARALLEL POROUS PLATES WITH EXPONENTIAL DECAYING PRESSURE GRADIENT

摘要

The unsteady Couette flow of an electrically conducting, viscous, incompressible fluid bounded by two parallel non-conducting porous plates is studied with heat transfer. An external uniform magnetic field and a uniform suction and injection are applied perpendicular to the plates while the fluid motion is subjected to an exponential decaying pressure gradient. The two plates are kept at different but constant temperatures while the Joule and viscous dissipations are included in the energy equation. The effect of the magnetic field and the uniform suction and injection on both the velocity and temperature distributions is examined.