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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ICETET.2008.273