On radiation effects on hydromagnetic Newtonian liquid flow due to an exponential stretching sheet

Abstract

Abstract The paper investigates the radiation effect on the magnetohydrodynamic Newtonian fluid flow over an exponentially stretching sheet. The effects of frictional heating and viscous dissipation on the heat transport are taken into account. The governing partial differential equations are transformed into ordinary differential equations using a suitable similarity transformation. Zero-order analytical solutions of the momentum equation and confluent hypergeometric solutions of heat and mass transport equations are obtained. The accuracy of analytical solutions is verified by numerical solutions obtained using a shooting technique that uses a Runge-Kutta-Felhberg integration scheme and a Newton-Raphson correction scheme. The effects of the radiation parameter, the magnetic parameter, Gebhart and Schmidt numbers on the momentum, heat and mass transports are discussed. The skin friction and heat and mass transfer coefficients for various physical parameters are discussed.