TY - JOUR
TI - MHD flow and heat transfer for Maxwell fluid over an exponentially stretching sheet with variable thermal conductivity in porous medium
AU - Singh Vijendra
AU - Agarwal Shweta
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2014
VL - 18
IS - 12
SP - 599
EP - 615
PT - Article
AB - An analysis is made to study MHD flow and heat transfer for Maxwell fluid  over an exponentially stretching sheet through a porous medium in the  presence of non-uniform heat source/sink with variable thermal conductivity.  The thermal conductivity is assumed to vary as a linear function of  temperature. The governing partial differential equations are transformed  into ordinary differential equations using similarity transformations and  then solved numerically using implicit finite difference scheme known as  Keller-box method. The effect of the governing parameters on the flow field,  skin friction coefficient, wall temperature gradient (in prescribed surface  temperature case), wall temperature (in prescribed heat flux case) and  Nusselt number are computed, analyzed and discussed through graphs and  tables. The present results are found to be in excellent agreement with  previously published work [1,2] on various special cases of the problem.