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The flow of an electrically conducting fluid at a rear stagnation point

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We consider the impulsively generated magnetohydrodynamic flow at a rear stagnation point. The work of Leibovich is carried further by formulating the inner viscous problem and providing analytical solutions and complete numerical solutions for the entire range of the interaction parameter. It is shown that the present results are consistent with previously obtained numerical solutions to the steady equations of both similarity and non-similarity form.

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Nous considérons l'écoulement magneto-hydrodynamique impulsivement engendré à un point de stagnation arrière. On porte plus loin l'étude de Leibovich par la formulation du problème visqueux intérieur et en fournissant des solutions analytiques et numériques complètes correspondantes au champ entier du paramètre d'interaction. On montre que les résultats actuels sont en accord avec les solutions numériques, et de similitude et de non-similitude, déjà connues des équations stationnaires.

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  1. School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, BS8 1TW, Bristol, UK

    W. H. H. Banks & M. B. Zaturska

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Banks, W.H.H., Zaturska, M.B. The flow of an electrically conducting fluid at a rear stagnation point. Z. angew. Math. Phys. 35, 72–80 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00945177

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