Unsteady hydromagnetic free-convection flow with radiative heat transfer in a rotating fluid. I: Incompressible optically thin fluid

The unsteady free-convection flow near a moving infinite flat plate in a rotating medium is studied by imposing a time-dependent perturbation on a constant plate temperature. The temperatures involved are assumed to be very large, so that radiative heat transfer is significant, which renders the problem very nonlinear even on the assumption of a differential approximation for the radiative flux. When the perturbation is small, the transient flow is tackled by the Laplace transform technique. Complete first-order solutions are deduced for an impulsive motion. (Author)