WSEAS Transactions on Fluid Mechanics
Print ISSN: 1790-5087, E-ISSN: 2224-347X
Volume 12, 2017
MHD Visco-Elastic Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Around a Circular Cylinder
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Abstract: An investigation is made on the temperature distribution within the thermal boundary layer region due to the flow of a second-grade fluid around a heated circular cylinder, maintained at a constant temperature higher than that of the fluid at infinity in presence of magnetic field applied transversely to the direction of the main flow. The problem has been solved by the application of steepest descent method used by Meksyn. The impact of various pertinent parameters on flow characteristics have been discussed through graphical illustrations. Newtonian results are found to emerge as limiting cases of the present analysis.