Steady Laminar Boundary Layer Flow over an Impulsively Stretching Surface Enclosed by Strong Magnetic Field

The problem of steady incompressible and laminar boundary layer flow over an impulsively stretching surface embedded a strong magnetic field of an electrically conducting Newtonian fluid in the presence of induced magnetic field has been studied. The resulting nonlinear coupled ODE's are solved numerically through the use of Maple software. The solutions is found to be dependent on three governing parameters including the magnetic field parameter M, the magnetic force number β and the receiprocal of the magnetic prandtl number λ. Representative velocity and induced magnetic field function profiles within the boundary conditions are presented at selected values of the parameters. To our best knowledge there has been no study and for this we cannot compare our method with any other numerical or experimental work.