• DocumentCode
    2315293
  • Title

    MHD Flow and Heat Transfer in the Flow of a Power Law Fluid Over a Non-ISO Thermal Stretching Sheet

  • Author

    Rajappa, Velur ; Prasad, K.V.

  • Author_Institution
    Cambridge Inst. of Technol., Bangalore
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    16-18 July 2008
  • Firstpage
    1077
  • Lastpage
    1082
  • Abstract
    This article presents a numerical solution for the MHD flow of an electrically conducting non-Newtonian power law fluid over a semi-infinite non-isothermal stretching sheet with internal heat generation/ absorption. The flow is caused by linear stretching of a sheet from an impermeable wall. Thermal conductivity is assumed to vary linearly with temperature. The intricate coupled non-linear boundary value problem has been solved by a combination of Keller box method and shooting technique. An important observation of our study is that the velocity boundary layer thickness and thermal boundary layer thickness decreases with the increase of power law index in the presence / absence of variable thermal conductivity.
  • Keywords
    boundary-value problems; heat transfer; magnetohydrodynamics; thermal conductivity; Keller box method; MHD flow; boundary value problem; heat transfer; impermeable wall; power law fluid; shooting technique; thermal conductivity; thermal stretching sheet; Chemical analysis; Crystalline materials; Fluid flow; Heat sinks; Heat transfer; Inorganic materials; Magnetohydrodynamics; Plastics; Polymers; Thermal conductivity; Chandrasekar number; Power law fluid; Prandtl number; Stretching sheet; heat source; power law index;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology, 2008. ICETET '08. First International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Nagpur, Maharashtra
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3267-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3267-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICETET.2008.273
  • Filename
    4580063