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The problem of the steady flow of an electrically conducting viscous fluid through porous walls of a channel in the presence of an applied transverse magnetic field is considered. A solution for the case of small M 2/R (where M = Hartmann number, R = suction Reynolds number) with large blowing at the walls has been given by Terrill and Shrestha [3]. Their solution, on differentiating three times, is found to become infinite at the centre of the channel. Physically this means that there must be a viscous layer at the centre of the channel and Terrill and Shrestha are neglecting the shear layer. In this paper the solution given by Terrill and Shrestha is extended by obtaining an extra term of the series of expansion and the method of inner and outer expansion is used to obtain the complete solution which includes the viscous layer. The resulting series solutions are confirmed by numerical results.
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Shrestha, G.M. A singular perturbation problem of laminar flow in a uniformly porous channel with large injection and with an applied transverse magnetic field. Appl. Sci. Res. 18, 260–272 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382351
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