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The combined effect of natural convection and uniform transverse magnetic field on the couette flow of an electrically conducting fluid between two parallel plates for impulsive motion of one of the plates in discussed. Under the assumption of negligible induced magnetic field and applied magnetic field being fixed relative to the fluid or plate, the governing equations have been solved exactly, and the expressions for velocity and temperature field have been presented for two different cases. A comparative study is made between the velocity field for magnetic field fixed with respect to plate and magnetic field fixed with respect to fluid.
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Received on 12 July 1999
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Jha, B. Natural convection in unsteady MHD couette flow. Heat and Mass Transfer 37, 329–331 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00013295
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