ON A SIMILARITY SOLUTION OF MHD BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW OVER A MOVING VERTICAL CYLINDER

The steady flow of an incompressible electrically conducting fluid over a semi-infinite moving vertical cylinder in the presence of a uniform transverse magnetic field is ana-lyzed. The partial differential equations governing the flow are reduced to an ordinary differential equation, using the self-similarity transformation. The analysis deals with the existence of an exact solution to the boundary value problem by a shooting method. Copyright © 2006 M. Amkadni and A. Azzouzi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, dis-tribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1