DOI: 10.36347/sjpms.2020.v07i08.002

Pages: 131-142

This investigated the flow and heat transfer of two dimensional biomagnetic fluid (blood) flow over a non-linear stretching sheet in the presence of magnetic dipole. It is assumed that the magnetic field is sufficiently strong enough to saturate the ferrofluid and variation of magnetization with temperature can be approximated by a linear function of temperature difference. The fluid viscosity is assumed to vary as an inverse linear function of the temperature. The governing boundary layer equations with boundary conditions are simplified to couple higher order equations using usual transformation. Numerical solutions are obtained by using bvp4c function technique in MATLAB software. The acquired results are shown graphically and were examined for several values of the dimensionless parameters. It is observed that for different values of ferromagnetic interaction parameter and variable viscosity parameter, the velocity distribution decreases while temperature distribution increases. The magnitude of skin friction coefficient and the rate of heat transfer decrease with the increasing values of radiation parameter and Prandtl number. The results are also compared for specific values of the parameters with others documented in literature.