On effects of a transverce magnetic field on an UCM fluid over a stretching sheet

Abstract

The effects of a transverse magnetic field within a boundary layer flow on an upper-convected Maxwell (UCM) fluid over a stretching sheet is examined in this paper. Similarity transformations are used to non-dimensionalize the governing boundary layer equations of motion. The resulting ordinary differential equations are then solved numerically by using efficient numerical shooting technique with fourth order Runge-Kutta algorithm [H]. The objective of the present work is to investigate the effect of elastic parameter ?, and magnetic parameter Mn on the temperature field above the sheet. We compare the results obtained with the results of Hayat et al [8] by several graphs. © 2011 Academic Publications.