Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN FLUIDS
Volume 69, Issue 2, Pages 384-398Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2564
Keywords
MHD stagnation flow; heat transfer; micropolar fluids; shrinking sheet; similarity transformation; finite differences
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A comprehensive study of magneto hydrodynamics two-dimensional stagnation flow with heat transfer characteristics towards a heated shrinking sheet immersed in an electrically conducting incompressible micropolar fluid in the presence of a transverse magnetic field is analyzed numerically. The governing continuity, momentum, angular momentum and heat equations together with the associated boundary conditions are first reduced to a set of self similar nonlinear ordinary differential equations using a similarity transformation and are then solved by a method based on finite difference discretization. Some important features of the flow and heat transfer in terms of normal and streamwise velocities, microrotation and temperature distributions for different values of the governing parameters are analyzed, discussed and presented through tables and graphs. The results indicate that the reverse flow caused due to shrinking of the sheet can be stopped by applying a strong magnetic field. The magnetic field enhances the shear stresses and decreases the thermal boundary layer thickness. The heat loss per unit area from the sheet decreases with an increase in the shrinking parameter. Micropolar fluids exhibit reduction in shear stresses and heat transfer rate as compared with Newtonian fluids, which may be beneficial in the flow and thermal control of polymeric processing. Copyright (C) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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