MHD forced convection flow adjacent to a non-isothermal wedge

In this analysis, the effects of viscous dissipation and stress work on the MHD forced convection adjacent to a non-isothermal wedge is numerically an alyzed. These partial differential equations are transformed into the nonsi milar boundary layer equations and solved by the Keller box method. Numeric al results for the local friction coefficient and the local Nusselt number are presented for the pressure gradient parameter m, the magnetic parameter xi, the Prandtl number Pr, and the Eckert number Ec. In general, increasin g the pressure gradient parameter m or the magnetic parameter xi or the Pra ndtl number Pr or decreasing the Eckert number Ec increases the local Nusse lt number. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd.