Research Article
Analysis of Magnetohydrodynamics Flow of Incompressible
Fluids over Oscillating Bottom Surface with Heat and
Mass Transfer
Vincent M. Bulinda , Giterere P. Kang’ethe, and Phineas R. Kiogora
Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology,
Juja 62000-00200, Kenya
Correspondence should be addressed to Vincent M. Bulinda; majorblinda@yahoo.com
Received 24 March 2020; Accepted 13 May 2020; Published 1 June 2020
Academic Editor: Vladimir V. Mityushev
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Analysis of magnetohydrodynamics flow of incompressible fluids over an oscillating bottom surface with heat and mass transfer is
discussed. e flow is free convection in nature. Momentum, energy, and concentration equations are obtained for computation
of their respective profiles. e unsteady flow two-dimensional governing equations are solved numerically by the explicit finite
difference method of the Forward Time Backward Space scheme. e numerical results show that the applied parameters have
significant effects on the fluid flow and heat transfer and have been discussed with the help of graphical illustrations.
1. Introduction
e problems of hydromagnetic free convection flow of
incompressible fluids over corrugated vibrating surface have
drawn considerable attention from several medical re-
searchers and engineers, resulting in the enhanced heat
transfer performance by increasing the area over which heat
transfer takes place. is technology is applied in the design
of processing equipment that complies with cheap, envi-
ronmental friendly, and energy-saving with high efficiency
of mass and heat transfers. Temperature control is important
in corrugated structures manufacturing because it helps to
ensure a strong bond between the layers of the corrugated
surface and indicates moisture content [1].
Fluid flow and heat transfer on corrugated channel
laminar in nature were first studied by [2] for transitional
and low Reynolds number turbulent flow. Magnetohydro-
dynamic free convection flow past an infinite vertical plate
oscillating in its plane was studied in the case of an iso-
thermal plate [3]. Rizwan et al. [4] investigated MHD natural
convection flow enclosure in a corrugated cavity filled with a
porous medium with a complete structure of corrugated
surface for heat transfer effects in the presence of the uni-
form magnetic field. e unsteady flow of second-order
thermoviscous incompressible forced oscillations of a fluid
bounded by rigid bottom was studied by [5]. Also,
Schlichting [6] observed experimentally and numerically
that corrugated channels do not have significant effects on
heat transfer enhancement if operated in a steady regime.
Garg and Maji [7] numerically studied the heat transfer of
sinusoidal wavy channels at zero degrees phase shift. A
numerical analysis of laminar forced convection in corru-
gated-plate channels with a sinusoidal, ellipse, and rounded-
vee wall shapes were studied [8]. Furthermore, Gbadeyan
et al. [9] investigated Soret and Dufour effects on heat and
mass transfer in chemically reacting MHD flow through a
wavy channel using amplitude as the perturbation
parameter.
is work attempts to study the effects of velocities,
concentration, and temperature fields on the unsteady flow
of incompressible fluid over the heated oscillating bottom
for the various material parameters.
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International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2020, Article ID 4054578, 12 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/4054578