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Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Published on: March 3, 2017
Induced magnetic field and viscous dissipation on flows of two immiscible fluids in a rectangular channel
Nehad Ali Shah1, Hussam Alrabaiah2,3, Dumitru Vieru4
1Department of Mathematics, Lahore Leads University, Lahore, Pakistan.
Abstract:
The unsteady, magneto-hydrodynamic generalized Couette flows of two immiscible fluids in a rectangular channel with isothermal walls under the influence of an inclined magnetic field and an axial electric field have been investigated. Both fluids are considered electrically conducting and the solid boundaries are electrically insulated. Approximate analytical solutions for the velocity, induced magnetic, and temperature fields have been determined using the Laplace transform method along with the numerical Stehfest's algorithm for the inversion of the Laplace transforms. Also, for the nonlinear differential equation of energy, a numerical scheme based on the finite differences has been developed. A particular case has been numerically and graphically studied to show the evolution of the fluid velocity, induced magnetic field, and viscous dissipation in both flow regions.
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