UDC 504.32

S. Ahmed

A STUDY OF INDUCED MAGNETIC FIELD WITH CHEMICALLY REACTING AND RADIATING FLUID PAST A VERTICAL PERMEABLE PLATE
The influence of thermal radiation and chemical reaction on the steady MHD heat and mass transfer by a mixed convective flow of a viscous, incompressible, electrically conducting Newtonian fluid (an optically thin gray gas) past a vertical permeable plate was investigated with account for the induced magnetic field. The similarity solutions of the transformed nondimensional governing equations are obtained by the series solution technique. The influence of numerous parameters on the process characteristics is studied. Keywords: electrically conducting fluid, chemical reaction, radiating fluid, series solution technique, current density, magnetic Prandtl number. Fluid Mechanics Research, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Goalpara College, Goalpara 783101, Assam, India; email: heat_mass@yahoo.in. Original article submitted July 2, 2010.