Hydromagnetic boundary layer flow of Williamson fluid in the presence of thermal radiation and Ohmic dissipation

• Main Authors: T. Hayat, Anum Shafiq, A. Alsaedi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2016-09-01
• Series: Alexandria Engineering Journal
• Subjects: Viscous dissipation; Thermal radiation; Ohmic dissipation; Williamson fluid; Unsteady stretching
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016816301417

This paper is concerned with the unsteady two-dimensional boundary layer flow of an incompressible Williamson fluid over an unsteady permeable stretching surface with thermal radiation. Effects of electric and magnetic fields are considered. The nonlinear boundary layer partial differential equations are first converted into the system of ordinary differential equations and then solved analytically. Effects of physical parameters such as Weissenberg number, unsteadiness parameter, suction parameter, magnetic parameter, electric parameter, radiation parameter, Prandtl number and Eckert number on the velocity and temperature are graphically analyzed. The expressions of skin friction coefficient and local Nusselt number are presented and examined numerically.