The effects of variable viscosity and thermal conductivity on a thin film flow over a shrinking/stretching sheet
Articles > Article ยท 2011
Authors: Yasir KHAN, Qingbiao WU, Naeem FARAZ, Ahmet YILDIRIM
Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, WoS, 2011, vol 61, pp 3391-3399
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2011.04.053
Summary
The effects of variable viscosity and thermal conductivity on the flow and heat transfer in a laminar liquid film on a horizontal shrinking/stretching sheet are analyzed. The similarity transformation reduces the time independent boundary layer equations for momentum and thermal energy into a set of coupled ordinary differential equations. The resulting five-parameter problem is solved by the homotopy perturbation method. The results are presented graphically to interpret various physical parameters appearing in the problem. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.