Pallath Chandran
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University
PC 123, Al Khod, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Nirmal C Sacheti
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University
PC 123, Al Khod, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
We consider the unsteady free convection flow of an electrically conducting fluid near a vertical plate undergoing impulsive motion. The fluid is assumed to be radiating, and subjected to an externally applied magnetic field. Using the well-known Rosseland approximation for the radiative heat transfer, the boundary layer equations governing the flow have been solved analytically. The solutions have been obtained corresponding to constant temperature as well as constant heat flux conditions at the plate. There arise four non-dimensional parameters, whose influence on the velocity profiles have been discussed.