The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of heat transfer and flow of non-Newtonian power-law fluids towards a stretching sheet in the appearance of transverse magnetic field… Click to show full abstract
The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of heat transfer and flow of non-Newtonian power-law fluids towards a stretching sheet in the appearance of transverse magnetic field with slip boundary conditions. Suitable similarity transformations are used to change the non-linear partial differential equations to ordinary differential equations. For the numerical solution Maple software by applying built-in command dsolve with numeric is utilized. It is noticed from the obtained results that an increase in the magnetic parameter results in a decrease in the dimensionless velocity profile and in the stream function while the temperature profile increases for the Newtonian, dilatant, and pseudo-plastic fluids. Increasing the velocity slip parameter, a reducing behavior can be seen in the stream function and in the velocity profile while temperature profile is enhancing. Moreover, with increasing thermal slip, a decrease occurs in the dimensionless temperature. The variations in the velocity and temperature profiles under dimensionless parameters are significant for n = 0.8 (pseudo-plastic fluid) rather than for n = 1 (Newtonian fluid) and n = 1.02 (dilatant fluid).
               
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