Melting heat transfer in boundary layer stagnation-point flow of nanofluid toward a stretching sheet with induced magnetic field

A steady two-dimensional hydromagnetic stagnation-point flow of an electrically conducting nanofluid past a stretching surface with induced magnetic field, melting effect and heat generation/absorption has been analyzed numerically. The model used for the nanofluid incorporates the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis. The nonlinear partial differential equations are transformed into ordinary differential equations using suitable similarity transformations, before being solved numerically. Effect of pertinent parameters on different flow fields are determined and discussed in detail through several plots and a table. Obtained numerical results are compared and found to be in good agreement with previously published results in a limiting sense. Further, in the absence of melting and magnetic field effect, the skin friction co-efficient results are compared with exact solutions, which are reported earlier. (C) 2015, Karabuk University. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V.