Influence of inclined Lorentz forces on boundary layer flow of Casson fluid over an impermeable stretching sheet with heat transfer

The inclined magnetic field effect on the boundary layer flow of a Casson model non-Newtonian fluid over a stretching sheet in the existence of thermal radiation and velocity slip boundary condition is investigated for both prescribed surface temperature and power law of surface heat flux cases. It is assumed that the magnetic field is applied with an aligned angle which varied from 0 degrees to 90 degrees. Both analytical and numerical solutions are obtained for the transformed non-dimensional ODE's using confluent hypergeometric function and fourth order Runge-Kutta method with shooting technique respectively. The combined effects of inclined magnetic field with other pertinent parameters such as Casson parameter, velocity slip parameter, radiation parameter and Prandtl number on velocity profile, temperature profile, local skin friction coefficient, local Nusselt number and non-dimensional wall temperature are discussed through graphs. It is found that the aligned angle plays a vital role in controlling the magnetic field strength on the Casson fluid flow region and the increasing values of aligned angle of the magnetic field lead to decrease the skin friction coefficient and the Nusselt number and increase the non-dimensional wall temperature. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.