Influence of viscous dissipation on unsteady MHD natural convective flow of Casson fluid over an oscillating vertical plate via FEM

• Main Authors: G. Jithender Reddy, R. Srinivasa Raju, J. Anand Rao
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2018-12-01
• Series: Ain Shams Engineering Journal
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090447917300199

In this paper, an unsteady magnetohydrodynamic natural convection, heat transfer, electrically conductive non-Newtonian Casson fluid over an oscillating vertical porous plate taken in to the account with an influence of viscous dissipation. An efficient computational Finite Element Method (FEM) employed to solve non-dimensional boundary layer partial differential equations for velocity and temperature distribution with the influence of emerging dimensionless parameters. Also, the local Skin-friction and local Nusselt number coefficients are obtained and analyzed through graphical and tabular forms. The results shows that increasing of Eckert number leads to increase in the velocity and temperature distribution while decrease in the local Skin-friction and Nusselt number coefficients. An increasing of Casson parameter leads to decrease in the velocity distribution and the local Skin-friction coefficient. Compared the present results with earlier reported studies of analytical solutions of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid flow problems. The current results are in excellent agreement with earlier existed results. The velocity and temperature distributions are closure for various mesh (grid) size. Therefore, these computational results are stable and converge. FEM is flexible and simplest method to solve this type of problems in various cases like Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid flow problems. Keywords: Casson fluid, MHD flows, Viscous dissipation, FEM