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App1．Math．Mech．一Eng1．Ed．，35(2)，155—166(2014) AppliedMathematics DOI10．1007／s10483—014—1780—8 and Mechanics ⑥ShanghaiUniversityandSpringer—Verlag BerlinHeidelberg2014 (EnglishEdition) M ixed convection stagnation-pointflow on vertical stretching sheetwith externalm agneticfield F．M ．ALI， R．NAZAR。 N．M ．ARIFIN ， I．POP。 ， f1．DepartmentofMathematics InstituteforMathematicalResearch，Universiti PutraMalaysia，UPM Serdang43400，Selangor，Malaysia； 2．SchoolofMathematicalSciences，FacultyofScience＆ Technology，Universiti KebangsaanM alaysia，UKM Bangi43600，Selangor，Malaysia； 3．DepartmentofMathematics，Babe~一BolyaiUniversity，Cluj—NapocaR一400084，Romania) Abstract Theproblem ofsteadylaminarmagnetohydrodynamicfMHD)mixedcon— vectionstagnation—pointflow ofan incompressibleviscousfluid overaverticalstretch— ing sheetisstudied． The e圩ectofan externally magneticfield istaken into account． Thetransformed boundarylayerequationsaresolved numerically byusingan implicit finite—difierencescheme．Numericalresultsareobtained ofrvariousvaluesofthemixed convection parameter Hartmannnumber，andPrandtlnumber．Theeffectsofanexter— nally magneticfield on theskinfriction coefficient，localNusseltnumber，velocity，and temperatureprofilesforbothA 1andA 1 whereA isthevelocityratioparameter， arepresentedgraphicallyanddiscussedindetail．Bothassistingandopposingflowsare considered．anditisofundthatdualsolutionsexistofrtheopposingflow． Keywords boundarylayer，mixedconvection，magnetohydrodynamic(MHD)，numer— icalresult，stagnation—point，stretchingsheet