MHD Flow of a Non-Newtonian Power Law Fluid over a Vertical Stretching Sheet with the Convective Boundary Condition

Authors

  • Azeem SHAHZAD Department of Mathematics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 44000
  • Ramzan ALI Department of Mathematics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 44000

Keywords:

Power law model, heat transfer, convective boundary conditions, vertical stretching sheet

Abstract

In this article, we study the power law model of steady state, viscous, incompressible MHD flow over a vertically stretching sheet. Furthermore, heat transfer is also addressed by using the convective boundary conditions. The coupled partial differential equations are transformed into ordinary differential equations (ODEs) using similarity transformations. The transformed highly non-linear ODEs are solved by using the Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM). The influence of different parameters on the velocity and temperature fields are analyzed and discussed.

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2012-12-13

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SHAHZAD, A., & ALI, R. (2012). MHD Flow of a Non-Newtonian Power Law Fluid over a Vertical Stretching Sheet with the Convective Boundary Condition. Walailak Journal of Science and Technology (WJST), 10(1), 43–56. Retrieved from https://wjst.wu.ac.th/index.php/wjst/article/view/337

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