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Effects of radiation and thermal conductivity on MHD boundary layer flow with heat transfer along a vertical stretching sheet in a porous medium

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A steady two-dimensional free convective flow of a viscous incompressible fluid along a vertical stretching sheet with the effect of magnetic field, radiation and variable thermal conductivity in porous media is analyzed. The nonlinear partial differential equations, governing the flow field under consideration, have been transformed by a similarity transformation into a systemof nonlinear ordinary differential equations and then solved numerically. Resulting non-dimensional velocity and temperature profiles are then presented graphically for different values of the parameters. Finally, the effects of the pertinent parameters, which are of physical and engineering interest, are examined both in graphical and tabular form.

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  1. Research Group of Fluid Flow Modeling and Simulation, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh

    M. Ferdows & T. S. Khalequ

  2. Fluid Dynamics and Turbomachinery Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, M. Aleksandrou str. 1, Koukouli, 263 34, Patras, Greece

    E. E. Tzirtzilakis

  3. Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, King Abdullah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Sh. Sun

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Ferdows, M., Khalequ, T.S., Tzirtzilakis, E.E. et al. Effects of radiation and thermal conductivity on MHD boundary layer flow with heat transfer along a vertical stretching sheet in a porous medium. J. Engin. Thermophys. 26, 96–106 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1810232817010118

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