• DISSIPATIVE FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER OVER A SURFACE STRETCHING WITH HEAT SOURCE AND POWER LAW VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION

Abstract

The boundary layer flow and heat transfer due to plate stretching with a power law velocity distribution in the presence of a transverse magnetic field is studied. A special form of magnetic field is chosen so as to yield the similarity equation. It is assume that the induced magnetic field is negligible, which justified for flow at small magnetic Reynolds number. The external electric field is zero and the electric field due to polarization of charges is also negligible, the heat due to viscous and Joule dissipation are neglected. Numerical solution of the resulting momentum boundary layer and thermal boundary layer equations are determined using fourth order Runge-Kutta scheme together with shooting method.