Thermal radiation effects on MHD flow past a vertical oscillating plate

The free convection MHD flow of a viscous incompressible fluid past an infinite vertical oscillating plate in the presence of thermal radiation is studied here. The fluid considered is a gray, absorbing-emitting radiation but a non-scattering medium. An exact solution to the governing equations is obtained by the Laplace-transform technique. The effects of the magnetic field parameter, radiation parameter, Grashof number, Prandtl number, phase angle and time on velocity and temperature fields are shown graphically and discussed. The variation of the skin-friction for different values of the parameters is also shown in a table.