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Engineering, 2010, 2, 299-305 299 doi:10.4236/eng.2010.24039 Published Online April 2010 (http://www. SciRP.org/journal/eng) Dual Solution of MHD Stagnation-Point Flow towards a Stretching Surface 1* 2 3 T. R. Mahapatra , S. K. Nandy , A. S. Gupta 1 Department of Mathematics , Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India; 2Department of Mathematics , A.K.P.C Mahavidyalaya, Bengai, Hooghly, India; 3Department of Mathematics , Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. * E-mail : trmahapatra@ Received September 19, 2009; revised November 7, 2009; accepted November 12, 2009 Abstract The effect of a uniform transverse magnetic field on two-dimensional stagnation-point flow of an incom- pressible viscous electrically conducting fluid over a stretching surface is investigated when the surface is stretched in its own plane with a velocity proportional to the distance from the stagnation-point. This mag- netohydrodynamic (MHD) flow problem is governed by the parameter b representing the ratio of the strain rate of the stagnation-point flow to that of the stretching sheet and the magnetic field parameter M. It is known from a previous paper [9] that if b 1, the steady solution to the problem is monotonic increasing and the solution is also unique. But when 0 b b (where b ( 1) depends on M), there exists a dual solution