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The unsteady laminar incompressible boundary layer flow of an electricallyconducting fluid in the stagnation region of two-dimensional and axisymmetricbodies with an applied magnetic field has been studied. The boundary layerequations which are parabolic partial differential equations with threeindependent variables have been reduced to a system of ordinary differential equations by using suitable transformations and then solved numerically using a shooting method. Here, we have obtained new solutions which are solutions of both the boundary layer and Navier-Stokes equations.
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TAKHAR, H., NATH, G. Similarity Solution of Unsteady Boundary Layer Equations with a Magnetic Field. Meccanica 32, 157–163 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004240119910
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