EVALUATION OF NATURAL CONVECTION FLOW OF A NANOFLUID OVER A LINEARLY STRETCHING SHEET IN THE PRESENCE OF MAGNETIC FIELD BY THE DIFFERENTIAL TRANSFORMATION METHOD

Abstract

In the present study, the convective flow and heat transfer of an incompressible iscous nanofluid past a semi-infinite vertical stretching sheet in the presence of magnetic field are investigated. The governing partial differential equations ith the auxiliary conditions are reduced to ordinary differential equations with he appropriate corresponding conditions via scaling transformations. The semianalytical olutions of the resulting ordinary differential equations are obtained sing differential transformation method coupled with Pade approximation. omparison with published results is presented which reveals that the applied ethod is sufficiently accurate for engineering applications.

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Dates

  • Submission Date2012-08-12
  • Revision Date2012-09-01
  • Acceptance Date2012-09-07

DOI Reference

10.2298/TSCI1205281Y

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