Free Convective Oscillatory Couette Flow through Porous Medium in the Presence of Transverse Magnetic Field and Heat Source

Abstract

Free convective oscillatory flow of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid through porous medium between infinite non conducting vertical parallel plates: one is moving and the other is stationary, in the presence of transverse magnetic field and heat source is investigated. The governing equations for velocity and temperature distributions are derived, solved by using perturbation technique and the effects of different physical parameters are shown through graphs. The expressions for the rate of shear stress and the rate of heat transfer are obtained, discussed numerically and their numerical values for various values of physical parameters are presented through Tables.