Title

Existence and uniqueness results for a nonlinear differential equation arising in viscous flow over a nonlinearly stretching sheet

Authors

Authors

R. A. Van Gorder; K. Vajravelu;F. T. Akyildiz

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Appl. Math. Lett.

Keywords

Boundary layer problem; Similarity solution; Viscous flow; Stretching; sheet; Existence and uniqueness theorems; BOUNDARY-LAYER EQUATIONS; HEAT-TRANSFER; VISCOELASTIC FLUID; MASS-TRANSFER; SUCTION; PLATE; Mathematics, Applied

Abstract

We establish the existence and uniqueness results for a class of nonlinear third order ordinary differential equations arising in the viscous flow over a nonlinearly stretching sheet. In particular, we consider solutions over the semi-infinite interval [0, infinity). These results generalize the results of Vajravelu and Cannon [K. Vajravelu, J.R. Cannon, Applied Mathematics and Computation 181 (2006) 609], where they considered the finite interval [0, R]. Also in this paper, we answer their open question of finding the existence and uniqueness results for the problem over the semi-infinite domain and discuss the properties of the solution. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volume

24

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

238

Last Page

242

WOS Identifier

WOS:000284659500030

ISSN

0893-9659

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