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Natural convection flow of a couple stress fluid between two vertical parallel plates with Hall and ion-slip effects

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The Hall and ion-slip effects on fully developed electrically conducting couple stress fluid flow between vertical parallel plates in the presence of a temperature dependent heat source are investigated. The governing non-linear partial differential equations are transformed into a system of ordinary differential equations using similarity transformations. The resulting equations are then solved using the homotopy analysis method (HAM). The effects of the magnetic parameter, Hall parameter, ion-slip parameter and couple stress fluid parameter on velocity and temperature are discussed and shown graphically.

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Srinivasacharya, D., Kaladhar, K. Natural convection flow of a couple stress fluid between two vertical parallel plates with Hall and ion-slip effects. Acta Mech Sin 28, 41–50 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-011-0523-z

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