Effective Prandtl Number, Hall Currents, Soret, and Dufour Effect on MHD Flow Past an Inclined Stretching Sheet with Aligned Magnetic Field and Heat Generation

Numerical study of steady MHD convective flow of viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid over an inclined stretching surface with aligned magnetic field, Hall effect, effective Prandtl number and heat generation is carried out. The partial differential equations are transformed to a system of non-linear ordinary differential equations which are then solved numerically by MATLAB bvp4c solver. The profiles of the velocity, temperature and concentration are analysed and duscussed with the numerical results presented graphically. The calculated values of skin-friction, the heat transfer rate and mass transfer rate at the surface are discussed numerically for various values of the physical parameters and tabulated. Results reveal that for attainment of optimal velocity profile, the amount of inclination of the magnetic field and the stretching surface need to be relatively small and that for a given effective Prandtl number the value of the Prandtl number should be greater than that of the radiation parameter.