Author(s)

Haider Zaman, Murad Ali Shah, Farhan Khan, Qaiser Javed

Faculty of Numerical Sciences, Islamia College University, Peshawar, Pakistan.

Effects of Hall current on heat transfer and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) boundary layer flow induced by a continuous surface in a parallel free stream of a second-order viscoelastic fluid are studied for uniform suction/injection by taking viscous dissipation into account. Complex nonsimilar solutions to the stream function and temperature are developed by means of an elegant technique, known as homotopy analysis method (HAM). Convergence of the solutions is ensured with the help of -curves. Graphical and tabular results for the effects of Hall current reveal that it has a significant influence on: complex velocity, complex temperature, magnitude of the shear stress at the surface, magnitude of the rate of heat transfer at the surface and on boundary layer thickness.

Hall Currents, Heat Transfer, Boundary Layer, Complex Nonsimilar Solutions, HAM

Zaman, H. , Shah, M. , Khan, F. and Javed, Q. (2014) Effects of Hall Current on MHD Boundary Layer Second-Order Viscoelastic Fluid Flow Induced by a Continuous Surface with Heat Transfer. American Journal of Computational Mathematics, 4, 143-152. doi: 10.4236/ajcm.2014.43013.