Abstract
Magnetohydrodynamic natural convection heat transfer from radiate vertical surfaces with fluid suction or injection is considered. The nonsimilarity parameter is found to be the conductive fluid injection or suction along the streamwise coordinate Ξ = V{4x/Ď 2gβ(Tw â Tâ)}1/4. Three dimensionless parameters had been found to describe the problem: the magnetic influence number N = ĎB2yĎ /ĎV2, the radiation-conduction parameter Rd = kÎąR/4aT3â, and the Gebhart number Gex = gβx/cp to represent the effect of the viscous dissipation. It is found that increasing the magnetic field strength causes the velocity and the heat transfer rates inside the boundary layer to decrease. Its apparent that increasing the radiation-conduction parameter decreases the velocity and enhances the heat transfer rates. The Gebhart number, i.e, the viscous dissipation had no effect on the present problem.
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