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International Scholarly Research Network ISRN Thermodynamics Volume 2012, Article ID 465864, 9 pages doi:10.5402/2012/465864 Research Article Heat Transfer due to Magnetohydrodynamic Stagnation-Point Flow of a Power-Law Fluid towards a Stretching Surface in the Presence of Thermal Radiation and Suction/Injection Tapas Ray Mahapatra,1 Sabyasachi Mondal,2 and Dulal Pal1 1 Department of Mathematics, Visva Bharati (A Central University), West Bengal, Santiniketan 731235, India 2 Department of Mathematics, Bengal Institute of Technology and Management, West Bengal, Santiniketan 731236, India Correspondence should be addressed to Sabyasachi Mondal, sabya.mondal.2007@ Received 5 October 2012; Accepted 19 November 2012 Academic Editors: A. Ghoufi, S. Hashimoto, and B. Merinov Copyright © 2012 Tapas Ray Mahapatra 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. An analysis is made on the study of two-dimensional MHD (magnetohydrodynamic) boundary-layer stagnation-point flow of an electrically conducting power-law fluid over a stretching surface when the surface is stretched in its own plane with a velocity proportional to the distance from the stagnation-point in the presence of thermal radiation and suction/injection. The paper exam- ines heat transfer in the stagnation-point flow of a power-law fluid except when the ratio of the free stream velocity and stretching velocity is equal to unity. The governing partial differential equations along with the boundary conditions are first brought into a dimensionless form and then the equations are solved by Runge-Kutta fourth-order scheme with shooting techniques. It is found