Development of flow and heat transfer of a viscous fluid in the stagnation-point region of a three-dimensional body with a magnetic field (Q1304112)

The development of flow and heat transfer of a viscous electrically conducting fluid in the stagnation point region of a three-dimensional body with an applied magnetic field is studied when the external stream is set into an impulsive motion from rest, and at the same time the surface temperature is suddenly raised from that of the surrounding fluid. This analysis includes both short-time solution (Rayleigh-type of solution) and the steady-state solution as time tends to infinity (Falkner-Skan type of solution). The unsteady three-dimensional boundary layer equations represented by a system of parabolic partial differential equations are solved numerically using an implicit finite difference scheme. For particular cases, we obtain analytical solutions.