Research Article

Magnetohydrodynamic Thin Film Flow through a Porous Stretching Sheet with the Impact of Thermal Radiation and Viscous Dissipation

Table 1

Dimensionless groups.

GroupSymbolDefinitionPhysical interpretation

Local Nusselt numberBasic dimensionless convective heat transfer coefficient (ratio of convective heat transfer to conduction in a fluid slab of thickness h)
Local Reynolds numberThe ratio of inertia to viscous forces
Eckert numberEcThe kinetic energy of the flow relative to the boundary layer's enthalpy difference
Prandtl numberThe ratio of kinematic viscosity () to thermal conductivity (k)
Skin frictionDimensionless surface shear stress