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International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research

ISSN for PRINT: 1064-2277

Institutional price:	$1811.00
Issues per year:	6

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2001, Volume28

152 pages

Issue price - $250.00

Hydromagnetic Flow and Heat Transfer over a Non-Isothermal Power-Law Stretched Surface with Heat Generation

Ali J. Chamkha
Manufacturing Engineering Department, The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, PO Box 42325, Shuweikh, 70654, Kuwait

ABSTRACT

General boundary-layer equations governing steady, laminar, hydromag-netic flow and heat transfer over a non-isothermal permeable surface stretching with a power-law velocity with heat generation and suction/injection effects and in the presence of a non-uniform transverse magnetic field are developed. A similarity transformation is used to transform the governing partial differential equations into ordinary differential equations. Linearized flow solutions for the case of large magnetic numbers are derived. The dimension-less similar equations are then solved numerically by using a standard fully implicit, iterative, tri-diagonal finite-difference method. Favorable agreement between the finite-difference and the linearized flow solutions are obtained. In addition, comparisons with previously published work on various aspects of the problem are performed and found to be in excellent agreement. A parametric study of all the physical parameters involved in the problem is conducted. A representative set of numerical results is illustrated graphically and discussed.