Thermal Radiation Effects on MHD Boundary Layer Flow over an Exponentially Stretching Surface

Santosh Chaudhary¹, Sawai Singh², Susheela Chaudhary²

¹Department of Mathematics, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
²Department of Mathematics, S. K. Govt. (P.G.) College, Sikar, Rajasthan, India.

DOI: 10.4236/am.2015.62027                

Abstract

The steady two-dimensional laminar boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid over an exponentially stretching surface in the presence of a uniform magnetic field with thermal radiation are investigated. The governing boundary layer equations are transformed to ordinary differential equations by taking suitable similarity transformation and solved numerically by shooting method. The effects of various parameters such as magnetic parameter, radiation parameter, Prandtl number and Eckert number on local skin-friction coefficient, local Nusselt number, velocity and temperature distributions are computed and represented graphically.

Keywords

Thermal Radiation, MHD, Boundary Layer Flow, Exponentially Stretching Surface

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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