Similarity transformation analysis of heat and mass transfer effects on steady buoyancy induced MHD free convection flow past an inclined surface

Abstract

The present work is devoted to the problem of a steady two dimensional hydromagnetic convective flow of a viscous, incompressible electrically conducting fluid past an inclined semi-infinite plate in the presence of magnetic field with heat and mass transfer (double diffusion). The convective flow starts under the simultaneous action of the buoyancy forces caused by the variations in density due to temperature and species concentration differences. A scaling group of similarity transformations is applied to the partial differential equations describing the problem under consideration, into a boundary value problem of coupled ordinary differential equations, which along with the boundary conditions are solved numerically by using shooting technique together with Runge-Kutta fourth order method and effects of various parameters on the flow fields are investigated and presented graphically.