Radiation Effects on the Flow near the Stagnation Point of a Stretching Sheet

Abstract

The present paper is concerned with the study of the radiation effects (Rosseland model) on the flow of an incompressible viscous fluid over a flat sheet near the stagnation point. The system of ordinary differential equations is solved numerically using the Runge-Kutta method coupled with a shooting technique. The results show that a boundary layer is formed and its thickness increases with the radiation, velocity and temperature parameters and decreases when the Prandtl number is increased.