Magnetohydrodynamic laminar boundary-layer flow over a wedge with suction or injection

Magnetohydrodynamic laminar boundary-layer flow over a wedge, the flow being subjected to a velocity caused by suction or injection, is studied. The fluid is assumed to be viscous, incompressible, and electrically conducting with a magnetic field applied transversally to the direction of the flow. The governing partial differential equations of this problem, subjected to their boundary conditions, are solved numerically by applying an efficient solution scheme for local nonsimilarity boundary-layer analysis. Numerical calculations, up to the third level of truncation, are carried out for the different values of the dimensionless parameters in the problem and an analysis of the results obtained show that the flow field is influenced appreciably by the applied magnetic field.