MHD Free Convection Boundary Layer Flow over an Inclined Heated Flat Plate with Thermal Radiation Effect

This work examines the effect of thermal radiation on convective heat transfer in viscous, incompressible and electrically conducting fluid of low Prandtl number over an inclined heated flat plate in presence of transverse magnetic field. The governing equations are converted into non-dimensional forms containing Prandtl number, magnetic field parameter, inclination parameter and thermal radiation parameter and the obtained non-linear partial differential equations subject to appropriate boundary conditions are solved numerically using finite-difference method and then discussed in detail for the effects of pertinent parameters. A comparison with earlier work shows the excellent agreement.