Volume 1, Issue 2

Impact of Applied Magnetic Field on Nonlinear Radioactive Heat Transfer of Dusty Fluid over a Stretching Sheet

Published:    2017-12-30

Authors

K. Ganeshkumar, B. J. Gireesha, M .R. Krishnamurthy, M. Umeshaiah

Abstract

A detailed investigation of twodimensional mixed convection flow of non-Newtonian fluid due to convectively heated stretching sheet in the presence of dust particles is conducted. To simulate the nonlinear thermal radiation effect, the Rosseland approximation has been used. The governing equations are transformed into a set of self similar nonlinear ordinary differential equations by means of suitable similarity transformations, which are then solved numerically by using Shooting method. The influence of pertinent parameters on the velocity and temperature distributions of both fluid and particle phases inside the boundary layer is observed and discussed in detail. Further, the features of skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number for different values of the governing parameters are also analyzed and discussed. Moreover, the numerical results of present study and those existing ones are tabulated for some limiting case.

Keywords

Dusty fluid,magnetic field, nonlinear radiation, stretching sheet.

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