Analysis of radiative free convective flow past a flat plate in the presence of transverse magnetic field with ramped wall temperature

Abstract

An analysis of radiative MHD free convective flow of a viscous, incompressible and electrically conducting fluid in the presence of transverse magnetic field with ramped temperature has been carried out. The dimensionless forms of non linear differential equations governing the flow problem along with boundary conditions are solved using Laplace transform technique. The comparison of results obtained for the velocity fields, temperature fields and concentration fields with variation in different fluid parameters for both ramped temperature and isothermal plate has been shown graphically. Further the expressions derived for skin friction, Nusselt number and Sherwood number are evaluated numerically and their variation with different parameters are presented in tabular form.