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Steady flow of a Williamson fluid past a porous plate
Author(s) -
Hayat T.,
Khalid Umbreen,
Qasim M.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
asia‐pacific journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.348
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1932-2143
pISSN - 1932-2135
DOI - 10.1002/apj.496
Subject(s) - magnetohydrodynamic drive , homotopy analysis method , suction , mechanics , flow (mathematics) , porous medium , magnetohydrodynamics , homotopy , porosity , fluid dynamics , nonlinear system , non newtonian fluid , series (stratigraphy) , newtonian fluid , thermodynamics , mathematics , calculus (dental) , physics , materials science , geology , geotechnical engineering , pure mathematics , medicine , plasma , dentistry , quantum mechanics , paleontology
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.