Title

MHD flow past a stretching permeable sheet

Authors

Authors

V. Kumaran; A. K. Banerjee; A. V. Kumar;K. Vajravelu

Abbreviated Journal Title

Appl. Math. Comput.

Keywords

MHD flow; Stretching permeable sheet; Boundary layer flow; Electrically; conducting fluid; RADIATION; FLUID; PLATE; Mathematics, Applied

Abstract

An exact solution is obtained for a boundary layer flow of an electrically conducting fluid past a quadratically stretching, and linearly permeable sheet. Effects of magnetic, suction/injection, linear/nonlinear stretching parameters on the stream function and the skin friction are shown graphically and are discussed. The results obtained reveal many interesting behaviors that warrant further study of the equations related to non-Newtonian fluid phenomena, especially the shear-thinning phenomena. Shear thinning reduces the wall shear stress. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volume

210

Issue/Number

1

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

26

Last Page

32

WOS Identifier

WOS:000264065700004

ISSN

0096-3003

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