THE EFFECTS OF MHD ON FREE-CONVECTION
FLOW PAST A SEMI-INFINITE ISOTHERMAL
INCLINED PLATE

G. Palani and Kwang-Yong Kim

UDC 536.25

An analysis of the effects of MHD on a two-dimensional 
free-convective flow of a viscous incompressible fluid past a semi-infinite 
isothermal inclined plate is carried out. The effects of viscous dissipation 
and the induced magnetic field are assumed to be negligible. A more 
accurate, unconditionally stable, and fast converging implicit finite 
difference scheme is used to solve the dimensionless governing equations. 
The effects of MHD on velocity, temperature, local and average skin 
friction, and local and average Nusselt number are studied. It is 
observed that the magnetic field parameter has a retarding effect 
on the velocity.

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University, 
Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea; email: gpalani32@yahoo.co.in. 
Published in Inzhenerno- Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 81, No. 4, pp. 
697-704, July-August, 2008. Original article submitted April 
2, 2007; revision submitted November 12, 2007.