Volume 1, Issue 1

Radiation Effect On MHD Stagnation-Point Flow And Melting Heat Transfer Of Micropolar Nanofluid Over A Linear Stretching Sheet

Published:    2017-06-30

Authors

B. J. Gireesha ,  M. R. Krishnamurthy,  B. C. Prasanna Kumara ,  N. G. Rudraswamy ,  K. Ganesh kumar ,  M. Umeshaiah

Abstract

This article investigates theradiation effects on the steady MHD boundary layer stagnation-point flow of a micropolar fluid towards a horizontal linearly stretching sheet in the presence of nanoparticles. A mathematical model is developed to study the heat transfer characteristics occurring during the melting process due to a stretching sheet.Suitable similarity transformations are employed to reduce thegoverning partial differential equations into the system of ordinary differential equations. The transformed non-linear ordinary differential equations governing the flow are solved numerically by the Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg-45 method with Shootingtechnique. Results for the velocity, temperature and concentration distributions are presented graphically for different values of the pertinent parameters.

Keywords

Boundary layer flow, nanofluid, stretching sheet, melting heat transfer, stagnation point flow, thermal radiation

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