MHDBoundary Layer Flow of a Nanofluid Past a Wedge

Abstract

This paper analyzes the steady laminar magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow, heat and mass transfer characteristics in a nanofluid over a wedge in the presence of a variable magnetic field. The governing nonlinear partial differential equations are transformed into a system of ordinary differential equations using similarity variables and then solved numerically by using spectral quasi linearization method (SQLM). The present numerical results are validated by favourable comparisons with previously published ones as the special cases of the present investigations. The effects of magnetic parameter, Falkner-Skan power-law parameter and the volume fraction parameter on the non-dimensional heat and mass transfer rates are presented graphically.