Steady flow of a Williamson fluid past a porous plate

ABSTRACT This article presents the series solution for the steady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of a Williamson fluid past a porous plate. Both suction and injection cases are analyzed. The resulting nonlinear problem is solved by employing the homotopy analysis method (HAM). The influence of vario...

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Published in:Asia-Pacific journal of chemical engineering 2012-03, Vol.7 (2), p.302-306
Main Authors: Hayat, T., Khalid, Umbreen, Qasim, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chemical engineering
Fluid dynamics
Fluid flow
Fluids
Graphs
Ham
homotopy analysis method
Newtonian fluids
nonlinear problem
Porous plates
Williamson fluid
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Summary:ABSTRACT This article presents the series solution for the steady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of a Williamson fluid past a porous plate. Both suction and injection cases are analyzed. The resulting nonlinear problem is solved by employing the homotopy analysis method (HAM). The influence of various parameters of interest on the velocity is discussed by displaying graphs. A comparison with the case of Newtonian fluid is given. Copyright © 2010 Curtin University of Technology and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
ISSN:1932-2135
1932-2143
1932-2143
DOI:10.1002/apj.496