MHD free convective flow past semi-infinite vertical permeable wall

In this paper, the basic equations governing the flow and heat transfer of an incompressible viscous and electrically conducting fluid past a semi-infinite vertical permeable plate in the form of partial differential equations are reduced to a set of non-linear ordinary differential equations by applying a suitable similarity transformation. Approximate solutions of the transformed equations are obtained by employing the perturbation method for two cases, i.e., small and large values of the suction parameter. From the numerical evaluations of the solution, it can be seen that the velocity field at any point decreases as the values of the magnetic and suction parameters increase. The effect of the magnetic parameter is to increase the thermal boundary layer. It is also found that the velocity and temperature fields decrease with the increase in the sink parameter.