Magneto Hydrodynamic Flow Through A Porous Medium Bounded By An Oscillating Porous Plate
by
Atchutarao Dhulipala
Aurora's Technological & Research Institute , Hyderabad , India
Coauthors: S. Thiagarajan and A Neelima MVSR Engineering College Hyderabad, India

The porous medium is in fact a non-homogeneous medium but for the sake of analysis, it may be possible to replace it with a homogeneous fluid which has dynamical properties equal to those of non-homogeneous continuum. Thus, one can study the flow of a hypothetical homogeneous fluid under the action of the properly averaged forces. Hence a complicated problem of the flow through a porous medium reduces to the flow problem of a homogeneous fluid with some resistance. A solution in the closed form has been obtained for the flow of a viscous incompressible fluid of small electrical conductivity in a porous medium near an oscillating infinite porous flat plate in the presence of a transverse magnetic field of uniform strength , fixed relative to the fluid. The graphical representations show that the porous medium reduces the velocity profiles.

Date received: January 24, 2008

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