Magnetohydrodynamics stagnation point flow towards a stretching vertical sheet

A. Ishak¹ - R. Nazar¹ - I. Pop²

¹ School of Mathematical Sciences, National University of Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
² Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cluj, R-3400 Cluj, CP253, Romania

Abstract
The analysis of steady two-dimensional stagnation point flow of an incompressible viscous and electrically conducting fluid, subject to a transverse uniform magnetic field, over a vertical stretching sheet is investigated when the sheet is stretched in its own plane with a velocity and a temperature proportional to the distance from the stagnation point. It is shown that the basic partial differential equations reduce to similarity equations. This is followed by a direct numerical solution of the resulting boundary value problem using a very efficient finite-difference method. Discussions are made to trace among them the physically realistic solution. Tables 5, Figs 13, Refs 17.