Effect of thermal radiation on MHD three dimensional natural convective Couette flow in presence of thermo-diffusion and chemical reaction

Abstract

This paper analyzes the effect of thermal radiation on MHD three dimensional natural convective Couette flow of an incompressible, viscous and electrically conducting fluid with uniform magnetic field. The plates are taken vertically upward. The magnetic field is applied normal to the plates. The governing equations are solved using simple perturbation technique. The effect of various parameters like M, Pr, R, Re, Gr, Gm etc. are studied graphically on dimensionless velocity, temperature and concentration. Also the variations in shear stress (τ), Nusselt number (Nu) and Sherwood number (Sh) for different physical parameters are presented in tables.