MHD Effects on Mixed Convection Flow Through a Diverging Channel with Circular Obstacle

What is it about?

MHD mixed convection steady laminar heat and mass transfer flow through an open diverging channel with a circular obstacle is studied numerically in the present work. Using a set of appropriate transformations, the governing equations along with the initial and boundary conditions are transformed into non-dimensional form, which are then solved by employing Galerkin weighted residuals finite element scheme.

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Why is it important?

The computation is carried out for a wide range of Hartmann number Ha, Prandtl number Pr and Reynolds number Re. The obtained results are presented in the form of streamlines, isotherms, average Nusselt number and average temperature of the fluid for various relevant dimensionless groups.