The purpose of this paper is to study the Joules heating effects on stagnation point flow of
Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids over a stretching cylinder by means of genetic algorithm (GA).
The main emphasis is to find the analytical and numerical solutions for the said mathematical model.
The work undertaken is a blend of numerical and analytical studies. Effects of active parameters
such as: Hartmann number, Prandtl number, Eckert number, Nusselt number, Skin friction and
dimensionless fluids parameters on the flow and heat transfer characteristics have been examined by
graphs and tables. Compression is also made with the existing benchmark results.
کلید واژگان :
Axisymmetric stagnation point flow, Genetic algorithm and Nelder-Mead method, Joules heating, Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, OHAM, Stretching cylinder
