Hall current effect on radiating span-wise fluctuating MHD convective flow through porous medium in a vertical porous channel

Abstract

An analysis of an unsteady MHD convective flow of an electrically conducting viscous incompressible fluid through porous medium filled in a vertical porous channel is carried out. The two porous plates are subjected to a constant injection and suction velocity as shown in Fig. 1a, b. The temperature of the plate at y*= + 9 2 is assumed to be varying in space and time as T*(y*, z*, t*) = T1 (y*) + (T2 - T1)COS (πz*d -ω*t*). A magnetic field of uniform strength is applied perpendicular to the plates of the channel. The temperature difference between the plates is high enough to induce the heat due to radiation. It is also assumed that the conducting fluid is opticallythin gray gas, absorbing/ emitting radiation and non-scattering. The Hall current effects have also been taken into account. Exact solution of the partial differential equations governing the flow under the prescribed boundary conditions has been obtained for the velocity and the temperature fields. The primary and secondary velocities, temperature and the skin-friction and Nusselt number for the rate of heat transfer in terms of their amplitudes and phase angles have been shown graphically to observe the effects of suction parameter λ, Grashof number Gr, Hartmann number M, Hall parameter H, the permeability of the porous medium K, Prandtl number Pr, radiation parameter N, pressure gradient A and the frequency of oscillation ω. The final results are then discussed in detail in the last section of the paper with the help of figures.