Free Convection MHD Flow with Thermal Radiation from an Impulsively-Started Vertical Plate

摘要

This paper investigates the combined effects of magnetohydrodynamics andradiation on free convection .ow past an impulsively started isothermal vertical platewith Rosseland diffusion approximation. The .uid considered is a gray, absorbing-emitting radiation but a non-scattering medium, with approximate transformations theboundary layer governing the .ow are reduced to non-dimensional equations valid in thefree convection regime. The dimensionless governing equations are solved by the finiteelement method