Effects of Thermal Dissipation, Heat Generation/Absorption on MHD Mixed Convection Boundary Layer Flow over a Permeable Vertical Flat Plate Embedded in an Anisotropic Porous Medium

In this paper, we investigated the effects of thermal dissipation, heat generation or absorption on MHD mixed convection boundary layer flow over a permeable vertical flat plate embedded in an anisotropic porous medium saturated with viscous Newtonian fluid. The non-linear partial differential equations describing the problem were reduced to coupled ordinary differential equations by means of dimensional analysis and appropriate transformations. The resulting boundary layer equations were solved numerically using a shooting quadrature implemented on an efficient and reliable software package. The influences of the embedded flow parameters sequel to the flow and heat transfer were attested on pertinent thermo fluid characteristics, such as the skin friction coefficient, the Nusselt number in table and plots while attributes due to the dimensionless velocity and temperature were demonstrated graphically. Considerable effects of all the governing flow parameters were observed quantitatively on all important physical quantities. It is conjectured that the results obtained will not only provide useful information for applications but also serve as a complement to the previous studies related to anisotropic porous media. There has not been documented archive on this particular study of ours yet. The present work can thusly be adduced original.