International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 1

MHD Boundary Layer Flow and Heat Transfer of Viscoelastic Fluid Past a Stretching Plate Through a Porous Medium

  • Author:
  • K. Das1, S. Jana2
  • Total Page Count: 14
  • Page Number: 59 to 72

1Department of Mathematics, Kalyani Government Engineering College, West Bengal e.mail: kd_kgec@rediffmail.com.

2Department of Mathematics, Kalyani Government Engineering College, West Bengal

Abstract

The unsteady magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow and heat transfer past a stretching plate through a porous medium in a viscoelastic incompressible and electrically conducting fluid have been studied. The problem have been solved by using the successive approximation method. We have considered the effects of surface mass transfer, heat transfer from a nonisothermal stretching sheet with thermal relaxation, Alfven velocity and the coefficient of elastic velocity of fluid on the flow in our analysis through graphs.

Keywords

Stretching plate, Porous medium, Alfven velocity, Thermal relaxation, Thermal conductivity, Magnetic permeability, Kinematics viscosity