HALL CURRENT EFFECTS ON FREE CONVECTION MHD FLOW PAST A POROUS PLATE

Heat and mass transfer along a vertical porous plate under the combined buoyancy force effects of thermal and species diffusion is investigated in the presence of a transversely applied uniform magnetic field and the Hall currents are taken into account. The governing fundamental equations on the assumption of a small magnetic Reynolds number are approximated by a system of non-linear ordinary differential equations, which are integrated by fourth-order Runge–Kutta method. Velocity, temperature and concentration are shown on graphs. The numerical values of the local shear stress, the local Nusselt number Nu and the local Sherwood number Sh are entered in tables. The effects of the magnetic parameter, Hall parameter and the relative buoyancy force effect between species and thermal diffusion on the velocity, temperature and concentration are discussed. The results are compared with those known from the literature.