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Gravity Modulation Analysis of Heat Transfer and Magnetic Boundary Layer of MHD Fluid Along Vertical Plate with Variable Viscosity and Porous Medium Effects
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Lahore, Sargodha-Campus, 40100 Sargodha, Pakistan
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Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Science and Technology, Baba Guru Nanak University, Nankana Sahib 39100, Pakistan
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Zia Ullah,
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Volume 1, Issue 2
2025
Received: 27 March 2025
Accepted: 04 August 2025
Published: 15 August 2025
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Abstract
The magnetic fluid flow through vertical surface plays a significant impact in engineering and industrial processes of insulating materials and heat exchangers. The main theme of this mechanism is to obtain the heat and magnetic flux of viscous fluid motion along the symmetrical magnetized surface with variable viscosity, porous medium and magneto-hydrodynamic effects. The goal of present numerical research is to find the stability in thermal management of vertical magnetic plates in manufacturing processes. The mathematical analysis is performed by using stream functions and similarity variables for smooth coding in MATLAB program. The convenient form of present model is derived by using the combined relation of Keller box and Newton Raphson approach under defined boundary values along the magnetized plate. The fluid velocity, heat transfer and magnetic flux are the main findings of this wok. It is depicted that fluid velocity and temperature profile enhances for small viscosity and maximum reduced gravity. It is exhibited that temperature profile enhances as Prandtl number and porous medium enhances. It is found that heat transport and magnetic flux enhances as reduced gravity enhances. It is also noticed that skin friction and magnetic flux performs opposite behavior for maximum values of porous medium.
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Keywords
magnetohydrodynamic
reduced gravity
variable viscosity
porous medium
magnetic flux
heat transport
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Ullah, Z., Abbas, A., Tariq, U., Haq, M. I. U., Kaynat, A., Bibi, A., Soha, T., Iqbal, M. W., & Ashraf, M. (2025). Gravity Modulation Analysis of Heat Transfer and Magnetic Boundary Layer of MHD Fluid Along Vertical Plate with Variable Viscosity and Porous Medium Effects. Computational Environmental Heat Transfer, 1(2), 51–64. https://doi.org/10.62762/CEHT.2025.812351
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TY - JOUR AU - Ullah, Zia AU - Abbas, Amir AU - Tariq, Uzma AU - Haq, Malik Izhar Ul AU - Kaynat, Alishba AU - Bibi, Anila AU - Soha, Tehreem AU - Iqbal, M Waheed AU - Ashraf, Muhammad PY - 2025 DA - 2025/08/15 TI - Gravity Modulation Analysis of Heat Transfer and Magnetic Boundary Layer of MHD Fluid Along Vertical Plate with Variable Viscosity and Porous Medium Effects JO - Computational Environmental Heat Transfer T2 - Computational Environmental Heat Transfer JF - Computational Environmental Heat Transfer VL - 1 IS - 2 SP - 51 EP - 64 DO - 10.62762/CEHT.2025.812351 UR - https://www.icck.org/article/abs/CEHT.2025.812351 KW - magnetohydrodynamic KW - reduced gravity KW - variable viscosity KW - porous medium KW - magnetic flux KW - heat transport AB - The magnetic fluid flow through vertical surface plays a significant impact in engineering and industrial processes of insulating materials and heat exchangers. The main theme of this mechanism is to obtain the heat and magnetic flux of viscous fluid motion along the symmetrical magnetized surface with variable viscosity, porous medium and magneto-hydrodynamic effects. The goal of present numerical research is to find the stability in thermal management of vertical magnetic plates in manufacturing processes. The mathematical analysis is performed by using stream functions and similarity variables for smooth coding in MATLAB program. The convenient form of present model is derived by using the combined relation of Keller box and Newton Raphson approach under defined boundary values along the magnetized plate. The fluid velocity, heat transfer and magnetic flux are the main findings of this wok. It is depicted that fluid velocity and temperature profile enhances for small viscosity and maximum reduced gravity. It is exhibited that temperature profile enhances as Prandtl number and porous medium enhances. It is found that heat transport and magnetic flux enhances as reduced gravity enhances. It is also noticed that skin friction and magnetic flux performs opposite behavior for maximum values of porous medium. SN - 3068-5486 PB - Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge LA - English ER -
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@article{Ullah2025Gravity,
author = {Zia Ullah and Amir Abbas and Uzma Tariq and Malik Izhar Ul Haq and Alishba Kaynat and Anila Bibi and Tehreem Soha and M Waheed Iqbal and Muhammad Ashraf},
title = {Gravity Modulation Analysis of Heat Transfer and Magnetic Boundary Layer of MHD Fluid Along Vertical Plate with Variable Viscosity and Porous Medium Effects},
journal = {Computational Environmental Heat Transfer},
year = {2025},
volume = {1},
number = {2},
pages = {51-64},
doi = {10.62762/CEHT.2025.812351},
url = {https://www.icck.org/article/abs/CEHT.2025.812351},
abstract = {The magnetic fluid flow through vertical surface plays a significant impact in engineering and industrial processes of insulating materials and heat exchangers. The main theme of this mechanism is to obtain the heat and magnetic flux of viscous fluid motion along the symmetrical magnetized surface with variable viscosity, porous medium and magneto-hydrodynamic effects. The goal of present numerical research is to find the stability in thermal management of vertical magnetic plates in manufacturing processes. The mathematical analysis is performed by using stream functions and similarity variables for smooth coding in MATLAB program. The convenient form of present model is derived by using the combined relation of Keller box and Newton Raphson approach under defined boundary values along the magnetized plate. The fluid velocity, heat transfer and magnetic flux are the main findings of this wok. It is depicted that fluid velocity and temperature profile enhances for small viscosity and maximum reduced gravity. It is exhibited that temperature profile enhances as Prandtl number and porous medium enhances. It is found that heat transport and magnetic flux enhances as reduced gravity enhances. It is also noticed that skin friction and magnetic flux performs opposite behavior for maximum values of porous medium.},
keywords = {magnetohydrodynamic, reduced gravity, variable viscosity, porous medium, magnetic flux, heat transport},
issn = {3068-5486},
publisher = {Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge}
}
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