MHD Visco-elastic Fluid Flow over a Stretching Sheet

摘要

An analysis is carried out to study the steady MHD flow and heat transfer characteristics in a visco-elastic fluid flow over a stretching sheet with internal heat generation or absorption. The governing partial differential equations are converted into ordinary differential equations by a similarity transformation. These equations are solved by a numerical method, quasilinearization technique. Heat transfer analysis is carried out for two types of thermal boundary conditions namely, (i) Prescribed Surface temperature (PST) and (ii) Prescribed wall Heat Flux (PHF). The effects of various physical parameters on flow and heat transfer are presented through graphs and discussed.