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

Takhar, Harmindar S., Chamkha, Ali J. and Nath, Girishwar (2003) Flow and heat transfer on a stretching surface in a rotating fluid with a magnetic field. International journal of thermal sciences, 42 (1). pp. 23-31. ISSN 1290-0729

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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.