TY  - EJOU
AU  - Hsu, Heng-Pin 
AU  - Ay, Herchang 

TI  - INFLUENCE OF MHD ON FREE CONVECTION OF NON-NEWTONIAN  FLUIDS OVER A VERTICAL PERMEABLE PLATE IN POROUS MEDIA  WITH INTERNAL HEAT GENERATION
T2  - Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer

PY  - 2019
VL  - 13
IS  - 1
SN  - 2151-8629

AB  - The heat and mass transfer characteristics of the influence of uniform blowing/suction and MHD (magnetohydrodynamic) on the free convection of 
non-Newtonian fluids over a vertical plate in porous media with internal heat generation and Soret/Dufour effects are numerically analyzed. The 
surface of the vertical plate has a uniform wall temperature and uniform wall concentration (UWT/UWC). The numerical modeling of this problem 
attracts considerable attention, owing to its practical applications in biological sciences, electronic cooling, advanced nuclear systems, etc. The 
transformed governing equations are solved by Keller box method. Comparisons showed excellent agreement with the numerical data in previous 
works. Numerical data for the dimensionless temperature profile, the dimensionless concentration profile, the local Nusselt number and the local 
Sherwood number are presented for the main parameters: the magnetic field parameter M, the blowing/suction parameter <i>ξ</i>, the power-law index of 
the non-Newtonian fluid n and the internal heat generation <i>A</i>*. The physical aspects of the problem are discussed in details.
KW  - <i>uniform blowing/suction
KW  -  MHD
KW  -  non-Newtonian fluid
KW  -  Soret/Dufour effects
KW  -  internal heat generation
KW  -  free convection
KW  -  vertical plate
KW  -   porous medi</i>

DO  - 10.5098/hmt.13.14