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Slow magnetohydrodynamic flow past a circular cylinder

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Oseen’ approximations are used to study the slow motion of a viscous, incompressible, electrically conducting fluid past a circular cylinder in the presence of a uniform aligned magnetic field. Using series truncation method, the analytical solutions for the first three terms in the Fourier sine series expansion of the stream function are obtained. Numerical values of the tangential drag for different values of magnetic interaction parameter and viscous Reynolds number are calculated.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Rajasthan, 302 004, Jaipur, India

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Kumari, R., Bansal, J.L. Slow magnetohydrodynamic flow past a circular cylinder. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) 94, 51–60 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02837251

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