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
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