TY - JOUR
TI - Effect of radiation and porosity parameter on magnetohydrodynamic flow due to stretching sheet in porous media
AU - Singh Phool
AU - Tomer Nagender Singh
AU - Kumar Sandeep
AU - Sinha Deepa
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2011
VL - 15
IS - 2
SP - 517
EP - 525
PT - Article
AB - An analysis is made for the steady two-dimensional flow of a viscous  incompressible electrically conducting fluid in the vicinity of a stagnation  point on a stretching sheet. Fluid is considered in a porous medium under the  influence of (i)transverse magnetic field, (ii)volumetric rate of heat  generation/absorption in the presence of radiation effect. Rosseland  approximation is used to model the radiative heat transfer. The governing  boundary layer equations are transformed to ordinary differential equations  by taking suitable similarity variables. In the present reported work the  effect of porosity parameter, radiation parameter, magnetic field parameter  and the Prandtl number on flow and heat transfer characteristics have been  discussed. Variation of above discussed parameters with the ratio of free  stream velocity parameter to stretching sheet parameter have been graphically  represented.