Unsteady magnetohydrodynamics flow about a stagnation point on a stretching plate embedded in porous medium

Abstract

This paper presents an unsteady two-dimensional laminar boundary layer flow of an incompressible, viscous and electrically conducting fluid in a vicinity of a stagnation point towards a stretching plate embedded in porous medium with variable free stream velocity. The governing nonlinear partial differential equations of mass, momentum and energy are reduced to a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations by using suitable similarity variables. The ordinary differential equations are tackled numerically by using Runge-Kutta Fehlberg fourth-fifth order method with shooting technique. The effect of the significant parameters on the fluid temperature and velocity are graphically presented and discussed. The numerically computed results are in good agreement with the available published results in the literature. It is found that the velocity increases with the increasing unsteadiness parameter where the velocity ratio parameter λ = 0.5 but it decreases for λ = 1.5.