SIMILARITY SOLUTION OF UNSTEADY BOUNDARY-LAYER EQUATIONS WITH A MAGNETIC-FIELD

The unsteady laminar incompressible boundary layer flow of an electric ally conducting fluid in the stagnation region of two-dimensional and axisymmetric bodies with an applied magnetic field has been studied. T he boundary layer equations which are parabolic partial differential e quations with three independent variables have been reduced to a syste m of ordinary differential equations by using suitable transformations and then solved numerically using a shooting method. Here, we have ob tained new solutions which are solutions of both the boundary layer an d Navier-Stokes equations.