Unsteady laminar boundary layer forced flow over a moving wall with a magnetic field (Q1103496)

The unsteady laminar incompressible two-dimensional and axisymmetric stagnation-point flows over a moving wall with a magnetic field have been studied when the free stream velocity and the wall velocity vary arbitrarily with time. It has been shown that self-similar solution is possible when the free stream velocity, the wall velocity and square of the magnetic field vary inversely as a linear function of time. The partial differential equations governing the semi-similar case and the ordinary differential equations governing the self-similar case have been solved numerically using the finite-difference scheme in combination with the quasilinearization technique. Analytical solutions have also been obtained for certain limiting cases. The skin friction and heat transfer are appreciably affected by the free stream velocity distribution, magnetic field and wall velocity. However, their effects on the heat transfer is comparatively less compared to the skin friction.