The steady flow behavior of a viscous, incompressible and electrically conducting fluid between two parallel infinite insulated horizontal porous plates with heat transfer is investigated along with the effect of an external uniform transverse magnetic field, the action of inflow normal to the plates, the pressure gradient on the flow and temperature. The fluid viscosity is supposed to vary exponentially with the temperature. A numerical solution for the governing equations for both the momentum transfer and energy transfer has been developed using the finite difference method. The velocity and temperature distribution graphs have been presented under the influence of different values of magnetic inclination, fluid pressure gradient, inflow acting perpendicularly on the plates, temperature dependent viscosity and the Hartmann number. In our study viscosity is shown to affect the velocity graph. The flow parameters such as viscosity, pressure and injection of fluid normal to the plate can cause reverse flow. For highly viscous fluid, reverse flow is observed. The effect of magnetic force helps to restrain this reverse flow.

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The present paper deals with the unsteady laminar flow of an incompressible, electrically conducting dusty visco-elastic fluid between two parallel stationary plates. The flow is caused by an exponentially decaying pressure gradient. A uniform magnetic field is applied on the lower plate at different inclinations. We observe that the motions of the fluid and dust particles are affected by the variation of some significant physical parameters of the visco-elastic fluid. Mass concentration number, time-relaxation parameter, visco-elastic parameter, intensity of the applied magnetic field and time are some of indispensable physical parameters of fluid flow. The governing equations of motion have been solved by analytical method and the results have been discussed with the help of graphs. The velocity is observed to be symmetrical with the centre of the channel of fluid flow as well as of dust particles. The velocity of the fluid particles and that of the dust particles go on decreasing with an increase in the values of mass concentration number, magnetic field intensity, visco-elastic parameter and time whereas the velocity profiles of fluid and dust particles are observed to be increasing with an increase in the time-relaxation parameter.

The unsteady magnetohydrodynamic Couette-type flow of an electrically conducting, viscous and incompressible fluid bounded by two parallel non-conducting porous plates under the influence of a constant pressure gradient and a transversely applied uniform magnetic field is studied with heat transfer. A uniform suction on the upper plate and an injection on the lower plate are applied perpendicularly to the plates keeping the rates of suction and injection the same. The two plates are maintained at different but constant temperatures. The governing nonlinear partial differential equations are solved by both analytical as well as numerical methods. An exact solution for the velocity of the fluid has been obtained by Laplace transform method. The Crank-Nicholson implicit method is used to obtain the unsteady fluid velocity profile. The transient part of the fluid velocity tends to zero as the time t tends to infinity. The energy equation is solved by the finite difference method .The effect of the magnetic field coupled with suction and injection on the velocity and temperature distributions is examined graphically and discussed in the present work.