Mixed Convective Boundary Layer Mhd Flow Along A Vertical Elastic Sheet

Keywords

Flow and heat transfer; Homotopy analysis method; Mixed convection; Nusselt number; Skin friction; Variable thickness

Abstract

The influence of magnetic field on flow and heat transfer of an electrically conducting fluid at an impermeable elastic sheet is analyzed. The governing nonlinear differential equations are solved analytically via homotopy analysis method. To validate the approximate-analytical method, comparisons are made with the available results in the literature for some special cases and the results are found to be in good agreement. The effects of physical parameters on the flow and temperature fields are analyzed graphically. We could obtain the residual errors E2f=1.3×10-4 and E2θ=8.0×10-4 respectively for velocity and temperature fields only with second-order approximations. The velocity power index and the variable thickness parameters have strong effects on the shear stress and the Nusselt number.

Publication Date

9-1-2017

Publication Title

International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics

Volume

3

Issue

3

Number of Pages

2501-2518

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40819-016-0252-x

Socpus ID

85059487216 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85059487216

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