Hydromagnetic stagnation point flow by a perturbation technique

An analysis is performed to study the momentum, heat and mass transfer characteristics of MHD natural convection flow and heat generating/absorbing fluid at the stagnation point of an isothermal two-dimensional porous body immersed in a fluid saturated porous medium. The results are obtained by solving the coupled non-linear partial differential equations describing the conservation of mass, momentum and energy by a perturbation technique [A. Aziz, T.Y. Na, Perturbation Methods in Heat Transfer, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1984 (pp. 1–184), R. Kenneth Cramer, Shih-I Pai, Magnetofluid Dynamics for Engineers and Applied Physicists, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1973 (pp. 164–171).]. These results are presented to illustrate the influence of the Hartmann number, Prandtl number, and dimensionless heat generation/absorption coefficient and suction injection parameter. Numerical results for the dimensionless velocity profiles, the temperature profiles, the local friction coefficient and the local Nusselt number are presented for various parameters. These effects of the different parameters on the velocity and temperature as well as the skin friction and wall heat transfer are presented graphically.