The present investigation reveals a study on the flow of magnetite water based nanofluids under heat generation and couple stress effects over a stretching sheet in conducting field. The governing partial differential equations are reduced into ordinary differential equations with the help of suitable similarity transformations and solved numerically by shooting method using MATLAB code under the couple stress boundary conditions. The results are illustrated through graphs and tables. Both the nanofluid velocities increase due to increase in couple stress parameter and the temperature increases for the increasing values of the heat source parameter.

couple stress, heat generation, conducting field, nanofluid, stretching sheet and shooting method.