MHD thermal-diffusion effects on free-convective and mass-transfer flow over an infinite vertical moving plate

Abstract

The Soret effect on MHD free-convective and mass-transfer flow of an incompressible, viscous, and electrically-conducting fluid, past a moving vertical infinite plate is studied. The flow is assumed to be at small Reynolds numbers so that the induced magnetic field is neglected. The problem is solved with the help of the Laplace transform method for two different values of the dimensionless functionf(t) signifying two different cases, e.g., (i) when the boundary surface, the flat plate, is impulsively started, moving in its own plane (I.S.P.) and (ii) when it is uniformly accelerated (U.A.P.). The effects on the velocity field as well as on the skin-friction of the various dimensionless parameters occurring into the problem, especially the magnetic parameterM and Soret number So, are discussed with the help of graphs.