Effects of variable thermal conductivity and heat source/sink on MHD flow near a stagnation point on a linearly stretching sheet

Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-21

  Sharma, P R ^a   Singh, Garry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

^b BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; MHD; Skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number; Source sink; Stagnation point; Steady; Stretching sheet; Variable thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 59549084027     PISSN: 17353572     EISSN: 17353645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.36884/jafm.2.01.11851     Document Type: Article

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