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Effect of uniform suction or injection on a magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow along a flat plate with pressure gradient

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The effect of uniform suction or injection on the flow of an incompressible electrically conducting fluid past a flat plate with pressure gradient in the presence of a transverse magnetic field was theoretically investigated. The boundary layer equations were transformed into non-similar ones, and the numerical calculations of the resulting equations were performed by the difference differential method. The velocity profiles, the coefficient of skin friction, and the displacement thickness were given for various values of the pressure gradient, the magnetic and suction/injection parameters. The neutral stability curves for wavelike disturbances of Tollmien-Schlichting type and the critical Reynolds numbers were then presented for the velocity profiles obtained above.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Iwate University, 020, Morioka, Japan

    T. Watanabe (Assis. Prof.)

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Watanabe, T. Effect of uniform suction or injection on a magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow along a flat plate with pressure gradient. Acta Mechanica 73, 33–44 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01177029

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