Free convective magnetohydrodynamic flow over an exponentially stretching sheet with radiation

Abstract

AbstractThe study explores a steady two‐dimensional magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow phenomenon of an incompressible viscous fluid with buoyancy‐driven force over an exponentially stretching sheet. In addition to that, the interaction of thermal radiation in conjunction with dissipative effects, that is, viscous and Joule dissipation is also considered, which is justified due to the presence of magnetic field. The boundary layer equations governed by the flow phenomena are transformed into ordinary differential equations by a suitable choice of similarity transformation. Numerical methods, such as fourth‐order Runge‐Kutta scheme in association with the shooting technique is employed to get an approximate solution of these transformed equations. The numerical computations for the wall shear stress and the heat transfer coefficients are obtained, analyzed, and then discussed. Furthermore, the major findings are pick‐in velocity distribution near the plate is marked with an increase in buoyancy parameter and the rate of heat transfer profile is linear in its boundary layer for low Prandtl number.