Unsteady hydromagnetic free-convection flow with radiative heat transfer in a rotating fluid of arbitrary optical thickness, III

Abstract

This paper investigates transient effects on the flow of a thermally-radiating and electrically-conducting compressible gas in a rotating medium bounded by a vertical flat plate. The transience is provoked by a time-dependent perturbation on a constant plate temperature. The problem particularly focusses on an optically thick gas and a gas of arbitrary optical thickness when the difference between the wall and free-stream temperatures is small. Analytical results are possible only for limiting values of time and these results are discussed quatitatively. Indeed the assumption of small temperature difference is more appropriate for plates which are opaque than transparent.