Hydromagnetic flow of a second grade fluid over a stretching sheet

    Authors

    K. Vajravelu;D. Rollins

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Appl. Math. Comput.

    Keywords

    NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID; VISCOELASTIC FLUID; HEAT-TRANSFER; STAGNATION; POINT; NONUNIQUENESS; Mathematics, Applied

    Abstract

    An analysis is carried out to study the flow characteristics in an electrically conducting second grade fluid permeated by a uniform magnetic field over a stretching sheet. In order to solve the fourth-order non-linear differential equation, a fourth boundary condition is augmented and a proper sign for the normal stress modulus is used. It is observed that for a physical flow problem the solution is unique. The exact solutions for the velocity fields for various combinations of the parameters M (the magnetic parameter) R (the suction Reynolds number) and lambda(1) (the viscoelastic parameter) are obtained. Furthermore, numerical solutions for the velocity components are obtained and discussed. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

    Journal Title

    Applied Mathematics and Computation

    Volume

    148

    Issue/Number

    3

    Publication Date

    1-1-2004

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    783

    Last Page

    791

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000187619800015

    ISSN

    0096-3003

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