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A numerical study of the unsteady MHD free convection with hall current

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Effect of Hall current on the hydromagnetic free-convection flow of an electrically-conducting viscous incompressible fluid past an impulsively accelerated vertical porous plate in the presence of a uniform transverse magnetic field subjected to a constant transpiration velocity is analyzed for the case of small magnetic Reynolds number. Numberical solutions are obtained for the axial and transverse components of the velocity as well as the skin-friction by employing the Crank-Nicolson implicit finite-difference method for all probable values of the Prandtl number. The results are discussed with the effects of the Grashof number Gr, the transpiration velocity parameter λ, the Hall current parameterm, and the magnetic field parameterM for the Prandtl number Pr=0.71 which represents air at 20° C.

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  1. M. A. Hossain

    Present address: Dept. of Mathematics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

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  1. Department of Mathermatics, Centre for Research in Basic Sciences, Misurata, Libya

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Hossain, M.A., Arbad, O. A numerical study of the unsteady MHD free convection with hall current. Astrophys Space Sci 141, 281–291 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00639495

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