Flow and heat transfer on a stretching surface in a rotating fluid with a magnetic field

Takhar, HS and Chamkha, AJ and Nath, G (2003) Flow and heat transfer on a stretching surface in a rotating fluid with a magnetic field. In: International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 42 (1). pp. 23-31.

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Abstract

An analysis has been developed in order to study the flow and heat transfer on a stretching surface in a rotating fluid, in the presence of a magnetic field. The partial differential equations governing the non-similar flow have been solved numerically by using the implicit finite difference and the difference-differential methods. The magnetic field increases the skin friction coefficient in the x-direction, but reduces the skin friction coefficient in the y-direction and the Nusselt number also decreases. On the other hand, the skin friction coefficients in x and y directions increase, in general, with the rotation parameter, but the Nusselt number decreases. The Nusselt number also increases with the Prandtl number.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	International Journal of Thermal Sciences
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Keywords:	MHD flow;Rotating fluid;Heat transfer;Stretching surface.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Mathematics
Date Deposited:	21 Jul 2009 12:50
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:54
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/16943

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