Plane Stagnation Double-Diffusive MHD Convective Flow with Convective Boundary Condition in a Porous Media

Okedayo T. Gideon, S. O. Abah

Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ondo State University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, Nigeria.
Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna, Nigeria.

DOI: 10.4236/ajcm.2012.23029                

Abstract

A numerical analysis has been carried out to study the problem of plane stagnation double-diffusive MHD convective flow with convective boundary condition in a porous media. The governing nonlinear partial differential equations have been reduced to systems of nonlinear ordinary differential equations by the similarity transformations. The transformed equations are solved numerically by using the classical fourth order Runge-Kutta method together with the shooting technique implemented on a computer program. The effects of the physical parameters are examined on the velocity, temperature and concentration profiles. Numerical data for the skin-friction coefficients, Nusselt and Sherwood numbers have been tabulated for various parametric conditions and are also shown graphically and discussed.

Keywords

Plane Stagnation; Double-Diffusive; MHD Convective Flow and Porous Media

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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