Flow and heat transfer of an electrically conducting fluid of second grade over a stretching sheet subject to suction and to a transverse magnetic field

An analysis is performed for flow and heat transfer of a steady laminar boundary-layer flow of an electrically conducting fluid of second grade subject to suction and to a transverse uniform magnetic field past a semi-infinite stretching sheet. The governing partial differential equations are converted into ordinary differential equations by a similarity transformation and an analytical solution for this flow is utilized. The effects of viscous dissipation and work due to deformation are considered in the energy equation and the variations of dimensionless surface temperature and dimensionless surface temperature gradient with various parameters are graphed and tabulated. Two cases are studied, namely, (i) the sheet with constant surface temperature (CST case) and (ii) the sheet with prescribed surface temperature (PST case).

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