Analyzing the Flow and Heat Transfer of a Power-law Fluid over an Unsteadily Stretched Surface using a Modified Homotopy Perturbation Method.

Autor: Lian-Cun Zheng, Chun-Xia Chen, Xin-Xin Zhang, Ying-Tao Gao
Zdroj: International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences & Numerical Simulation; Oct2010, Vol. 11 Issue 10, p843-849, 7p
Abstrakt: The flow and heat transfer of a power-law fluid over an unsteadily stretched surface with variable thermal conductivity is studied. The governing equations are reduced to a class of non-linear ordinary differential equations by means of similarity transformations and an approximate analytical solution is obtained by using a modified homotopy perturbation method. The effects of the various parameters (power-law index, unsteadiness parameter, Prandtl number and variable thermal conductivity) on the velocity and temperature fields are graphically illustrated and analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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