MHD stagnation point flow with suction towards a shrinking sheet

• Main Authors: Lok, Yian Yian, Anuar Ishak, Ioan Pop
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2011
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2729/1/16_Lok_Yian.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2729/; http://www.ukm.my/jsm
• Institution: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

A steady two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stagnation-point flow of a viscous and electrically conducting fluid over a permeable shrinking sheet has been studied. The governing partial differential equations are reduced to the nonlinear ordinary differential equations by a similarity transformation. The resulting differential equations are then solved numerically using an implicit finite difference method. It is found that the solutions are non-unique for weak magnetic field, strong suction and large velocity ratio between free stream velocity and wall shrinking velocity.