MELTING EFFECTS ON THE STAGNATION POINT FLOW OF A JEFFREY FLUID IN THE PRESENCE OF MAGNETIC FIELD

This paper is devoted to investigation of the influence of magnetic field and melting heat transfer on the stagnation point flow of an incompressible, electrically conducting Jeffrey fluid past a semi-infinite stretching sheet in the presence of viscous dissipation and Joule heating. The governing boundary-layer equations are written in a dimensionless form by similarity transformations. The transformed nonlinear ordinary differential equations are solved numerically using the symbolic software MATHEMATICA. A favorable comparison with the previously published work is performed. Numerical results for dimensionless velocity, temperature, the skin friction coefficient, and Nusselt number are presented in the form of graphs and tables for pertinent parameters to show interesting aspects of the solution.