MHD flow and heat transfer of Sisko fluid over a radially stretching sheet with convective boundary conditions

This paper analyzes magnetohydrodynamic axisymmetric flow of an electrically conducting Sisko fluid over a radially stretching surface. The analysis includes forced convective heat transfer by considering convective boundary conditions. The transformed nonlinear governing ordinary differential equations are solved analytically as well as numerically by utilizing the homotopy analysis method (HAM) and shooting method, respectively. As a result of the analysis, some exact solutions for the velocity and temperature distributions are obtained and a comparison is made with the HAM solutions with an excellent agreement.