Vol 4 , Issue 1 , January - March 2016 | Pages: 191-201 | Research Paper
Received: January 25, 2016 | Revised: February 20, 2016 | Accepted: February 28, 2016 | Published Online: March 15, 2016
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Aim of this paper to investigate Soret (thermal-diffusion) and Dufour (diffusion-thermo) effects on unsteady MHD flow through porous medium in the presence of a magnetic field with hall current. The similarity solutions were obtained using suitable transformations and the resulting similarity ordinary differential equations were solved by finite difference method. The influences of different flow parameters on velocity, temperature and concentration fields are investigated. The skin frictions at the plate due to tangential and lateral velocity fields are obtained in non-dimensional form. The effects of the physical parameters like Dufour number (Du) and Soret number (Sr) on these fields are discussed through graphs and results are physically interpreted.
Keywords
MHD; Porous Medium; Heat Transfer; Mass Transfer; Soret Number; Dufour Number; Hall Current; Porous Flat Plate; Finite Difference Method.