Scaling group analysis on mhd effects on heat transfer near a stagnation point on a linearly stretching sheet with variable viscosity and thermal conductivity, viscous dissipation and heat source/sink


Hunegnaw Dessie, Kishan Naikoti




The effects of variable viscosity and thermal conductivity on MHD heat transfer flow of viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid near stagnation point flow on non-conducting stretching sheet in presence of uniform transfer magnetic field with heat source/sink and viscous dissipation has been analyzed. The governing partial differential equations are transformed into ordinary differential equations using a special form of Lie group transformations and then solved using Fourth order Runge--Kutta Method. Effects of different physical parameters on the flow and heat transfer characteristics are analyzed. Variations of different parameters on skin fiction coefficient-$f''(0)$ and temperature gradient $-\theta'(0)$ are presented in tabular form.