An-Najah Staff

An attempt is made to study the steady MHD plane aligned flow through porous media in the presence of a magnetic field. An alternative approach to the Riabouchinsky method is developed for this flow problem. The proposed method will reduce the number of arbitrary constants arising when using the Riabouchinsky method. Consequently, many of the restrictive assumptions used in assigning values to the arbitrary constants are no longer needed. The analytical solution of the compatibility equations are determined leading to the solution of the velocity components and the pressure distribution for this problem.