Author(s)

Ronald Nyabuto¹, Rogers Omboga Amenya², Jeconniah Abonyo Okelo¹

¹Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Juja, Kenya.
²Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Nyeri, Kenya.

In this paper, an investigation of unsteady free convective magneto-hydro dynamic (MHD) flow of salty water in the presence of a transverse magnetic field has been carried out. An electrically conducting and incompressible fluid is assumed to flow past a semi-infinite vertical porous plate. A constant magnetic field is applied normally to the vertical plate. The Prandtl numbers for salt water are taken to be 1 at 20˚C. The governing equations of the problem contain non-linear partial differential equations that are transformed into ordinary differential equations. An explicit finite difference scheme has been used to solve the transformed ordinary equations generated from this flow problem. The velocity profiles and temperature distribution of the flow field have been discussed and presented graphically.

Viscous Dissipative, Porous Medium, Unsteady

Nyabuto, R. , Amenya, R. and Okelo, J. (2021) Unsteady Viscous Dissipative Flow of Salty Water in the Presence of a Magnetic Field in a Semi-Infinite Porous Medium. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 9, 931-940. doi: 10.4236/jamp.2021.95063.