TY - JOUR
TI - Analysis of heat transfer of hydromagnetic flow over a curved generalized stretching or shrinking surface with convective boundary condition
AU - Naveed Muhammad
AU - Abbas Zaheer
AU - Zia Qazi Muhammad Zaigham
AU - Sajid Muhammad
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2019
VL - 23
IS - 6
SP - 3775
EP - 3783
PT - Article
AB - An investigation is carried out to discuss the heat transfer mechanism to an  electrically conducting viscous fluid on a curved stretching/shrinking  surface incorporated with convective boundary condition. The impact of  uniform magnetic field is also considered. The mathematical formulation for  the transport of heat and flow phenomena is developed by utilizing a  curvilinear coordinates system. The obtained sets of partial differential  equations are reconstructed into coupled nonlinear differential equations by  incorporating similarity transformations. The numerical solution is attained  by employing the shooting method. The obtained solutions are then used to  discuss the impacts of various emerging parameters on the temperature and  heat transfer across the surface. Dual nature of the solutions are obtained  for definite range of convective, suction, magnetic, Prandtl and stretching  or shrinking parameters. Comparison of the obtained results with the  existing results for a flat sheet is found in acceptable agreement. It is  noticed that with an increment in convective parameter increases the  temperature of the fluid, while an increase in suction and magnetic  parameters decreases the temperature of the fluid for both the solutions.