Qualitative analysis of magnetohydrodynamics stagnation point flow with a novel numerical approach through Shifted Chebyshev collocation method

Abstract

This paper investigates the third-order nonlinear boundary value problem, resulting from the exact reduction of the Navier-Stokes equation caused by the magnetohydrodynamics boundary layer flow near a stagnation point on a rough plate. The governing partial differential equations are transformed into a nonlinear ordinary differential equation and partial slip boundary conditions by an appropriate similarity transformation. In this previous work, the boundary value problem (BVP) was investigated numerically, and a lot of speculations regarding the existence and behavior of the solutions were carried out. The primary objective of this article is to verify these speculations mathematically. In this work, we have proved that there is a unique solution for all parameters values, and further, the solution has monotonic increasing first derivative. Moreover, the resulting nonlinear boundary value problem is solved by shifted Chebyshev collocation method. We compare the present numerical results with the previous results for the particular physical parameters, concluding that the results are highly accurate. The velocity profiles and streamlines are also plotted to address the significance of the parameters. Our manuscript is a judicial mix between mathematical and numerical methods.