MHD Flow, and Heat Transfer with Effects of Buoyancy, Viscous and Joules Dissipation over a Nonlinear Vertical Stretching Porous Sheet with Partial Slip

M. Subhas Abel, Kulkarni Anant Kumar, R. Ravikumara

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DOI: 10.4236/eng.2011.33033                

Abstract

In this paper, the problem of steady laminar two-dimensional boundary layer MHD flow and heat transfer of an incompressible viscous fluid with the presence of buoyancy force and viscous dissipation over an vertical nonlinear stretching sheet with partial slip is investigated numerically. Numerical solutions of the resulting nonlinear boundary value problem in the case when the sheet stretches with a velocity varying nonlinearly with the distance is carried out. The effects of for various values of suction parameter, magnetic parameter, Prandtl number, Eckert number, buoyancy parameter, nonlinear stretching parameter and slip parameter on flow and heat transfer characteristics is investigated.

Keywords

MHD, Nonlinear Stretching Parameter, Joules Dissipation, Viscous Dissipation, Eckert Number, Slip Parameter

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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