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MHD rotating flow of a viscous fluid over a shrinking surface

  • Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission
  • Quaid-I-Azam University

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Abstract

This study is concerned with the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) rotating boundary layer flow of a viscous fluid caused by the shrinking surface. Homotopy analysis method (HAM) is employed for the analytic solution. The similarity transformations have been used for reducing the partial differential equations into a system of two coupled ordinary differential equations. The series solution of the obtained system is developed and convergence of the results are explicitly given. The effects of the parameters M, s and λ on the velocity fields are presented graphically and discussed. It is worth mentioning here that for the shrinking surface the stable and convergent solutions are possible only for MHD flows.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)259-265
Number of pages7
JournalNonlinear Dynamics
Volume51
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2008
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • HAM solution
  • Rotating flow
  • Shrinking sheet
  • Viscous fluid

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