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Steady two-dimensional stagnation-point flow of an incompressible viscous electrically conducting fluid over a flat deformable sheet is investigated when the sheet is stretched in its own plane with a velocity proportional to the distance from the stagnation-point. It is shown that the velocity at a point decreases/increases with increase in the magnetic field when the free stream velocity is less/greater than the stretching velocity. Temperature distribution in the flow is obtained when the surface is held at a constant temperature.
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Mahapatra, T.R., Gupta, A.S. Magnetohydrodynamic stagnation-point flow towards a stretching sheet. Acta Mechanica 152, 191–196 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01176953
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01176953