Heat Transfer in MHD Dusty Boundary Layer Flow over an Inclined Stretching Sheet with Non-Uniform Heat SourceSink.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Mathematical Physics Volume 2012, Article ID 657805, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2012/657805 Research Article Heat Transfer in MHD Dusty Boundary Layer Flow over an Inclined Stretching Sheet with Non-Uniform Heat Source/Sink G. K. Ramesh, B. J. Gireesha, and C. S. Bagewadi Department of Studies and Research in Mathematics, Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta, Shimoga, Karnataka 577 451, India Correspondence should be addressed to B. J. Gireesha, bjgireesu@rediff Received 1 March 2012; Revised 28 April 2012; Accepted 30 April 2012 Academic Editor: Shao-Ming Fei Copyright q 2012 G. K. Ramesh et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper presents the study of momentum and heat transfer characteristics in a hydromagnetic flow of dusty fluid over an inclined stretching sheet with non-uniform heat source/sink, where the flow is generated due to a linear stretching of the sheet. Using a similarity transformation, the governing equations of the problem are reduced to a coupled third-order nonlinear ordinary differential equations and are solved numerically by Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg fourth-fifth-order method using symbolic software Maple. Our numerical solutions are shown to agree with the available results in the literature and then employ the numerical results to bring out the effects of the fluid-particle interaction parameter, local Grashof number, angle of inclination, heat source/sink parameter, Chandrasekhar number, and the Prandtl number on the flow and heat transfer characteristics. The results have possible technologica