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Magnetohydrodynamic free convection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

N. Riley
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Durham University

Abstract

The flow of an electrically conducting fluid up a hot vertical plate in the presence of a strong magnetic field normal to the plate is considered. A solution is developed based on the idea of matching ‘outer’ and ‘inner’ solutions in the moving layer of fluid. An approximate Pohlhausen method of solution is also given which yields results in fairly good agreement with the exact analysis.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1964 Cambridge University Press

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