Abstract
A theoretical study on the effect of magnetohydrodynamic field on the classical Blasius and Sakiadis flows of heat transfer characteristics with variable conditions and variable properties are studied in this paper. Hydromagnetic flows and heat transfer in porous media have been considered extensively in recent years due to their occurrence in several engineering processes such as compact heat exchangers, metallurgy, casting, filtration of liquid metals, cooling of nuclear reactors and fusion control. The governing partial differential equations are converted into ordinary differential equations using the suitable similarity transformations. The transformed boundary layer equations like momentum and energy equations are solved numerically by using Runge–Kutta method. The effect of governing physical parameters over the velocity and temperature distributions is demonstrated graphically. Moreover, the local friction factor coefficient and rate of heat transfer in terms of Nusselt number are computed and discussed through tables. We validated the present solutions with already existing studies under limited cases. It is found that the thermal buoyancy parameter enhances the velocity depreciates the temperature field for both the Sakiadis and Blasius flow cases. The influence of Biot number increases skin friction coefficient and local Nusselt number for both Sakiadis and Blasius flow cases.The rate of heat transfer for temperature ratio parameter is high in Blasius flow case when compared with Sakiadis flow case.