... is useful for researchers working in mathematical and theoretical physics. Moreover, numerical results are very useful in industry and daily-use processes. Magnetic field Shooting method Solar radiation Joule heating Activation energy Williamson fluid Variable diffusion coefficient...

.... To facilitate the computation process, the governing problem is transmuted into dimensionless form via appropriate group of scaling transforms. The numerical technique shooting method is used to solve dimensionless boundary value problem. Findings The expressions for dimensionless velocity and temperature...

... equations. Suitable similarity transformations are used to transform the governing partial differential equations into ordinary differential equations. In order to solve this system of ordinary differential equations numerically, shooting method in conjunction with Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method is used...

... are first reduced into self-similar forms and then solved for the numerical solutions by shooting method. Findings – The results are compared with the available studies is some special cases and found in excellent agreement. It is noticed that an increase in the magnetic field strength leads...

... Publishing Limited 2015 Thermal radiation Power-law fluid Shooting method Stretching sheet Stagnation-point flow Equation (1) is identically satisfied and Equations (2) and (7) with the boundary conditions (4) reduce to: (Equation 18) The classical problem of two-dimensional flow...