Hall Effects on Unsteady Free Convection in a Heated Vertical Channel in Presence of Heat Generation

Sanatan Das^1, and Rabindra Nath Jana²

¹Department of Mathematics, University of Gour Banga, Malda, India

²Department of Applied Mathematics, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, India

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Sanatan Das and Rabindra Nath Jana. Hall Effects on Unsteady Free Convection in a Heated Vertical Channel in Presence of Heat Generation. Applied Mathematics and Physics. 2013; 1(3):45-59. doi: 10.12691/amp-1-3-2

Abstract

Hall effects on an unsteady free convective flow of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid between two heated vertical plates in the presence of a transverse applied magnetic field and heat generation have been studied. The governing equations are solved analytically using the Laplace transform technique. In order to get the physical insight into the problem, the effects of important parameters on temperature and velocity profiles are shown graphically and discussed in detail.

Keywords:
Hall currents free convection heat generation Prandtl number Grashof number frequency parameter

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