Heat transfer in MHD viscoelastic fluid flow on stretching sheet with heat source/sink, viscous dissipation, stress work, and radiation for the case of large Prandtl number

An analysis is carried out to study the magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow behavior and heat transfer characteristics of a viscoelastic fluid flow over a stretching sheet with radiation and for the case of large Prandtl numbers. The basic boundary layer equations of momentum and heat transfer, which are nonlinear partial differential equations, are converted into nonlinear ordinary differential equations by means of similarity transformation. The resulting nonlinear ordinary differential equations of momentum are solved exactly. Similarly, the energy equation is transformed to a confluent hypergeometric differential equation using a new variable and Rosseland approximation for radiation. The analytic solutions for temperature profile and heat transfer characteristics are obtained in terms of Kummer's function, and their asymptotic limits for large Prandtl numbers are also obtained. The effects of magnetic field, viscoelastic parameter, viscous dissipation, heat generation/absorption, work done due to deformation, and radiation on flow and heat transfer characteristics are discussed through several graphs. To assess the validity and accuracy of the present work, heat transfer results were compared to those of previously published work of Nataraja et al. (1977). This comparison shows excellent agreement between the results.