Title

Hydromagnetic flow of a second grade fluid over a stretching sheet

Authors

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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