Melting heat transfer in an axisymmetric stagnation-point flow of the Jeffrey fluid
- Authors: Nawaz M.1, Hayat T.2, Zeeshan A.3
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Affiliations:
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics (FBAS)
- Issue: Vol 57, No 2 (2016)
- Pages: 308-316
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0021-8944/article/view/159185
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021894416020140
- ID: 159185
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Abstract
This investigation explores the characteristics of melting heat transfer in a boundary layer flow of the Jeffrey fluid near the stagnation point on a stretching sheet subject to an applied magnetic field. The governing boundary layer equations are transformed to ordinary differential equations by similarity transformations. Resulting nonlinear problems are solved analytically by the homotopy analysis method. It is noticed that an increase in the melting parameter decreases the dimensionless velocity and temperature, while an increase in the Deborah number increases the velocity and momentum boundary layer thickness.
About the authors
M. Nawaz
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Author for correspondence.
Email: nawaz_d2006@yahoo.com
Pakistan, Islamabad, 44000
T. Hayat
Department of Mathematics
Email: nawaz_d2006@yahoo.com
Pakistan, Islamabad, 44000
A. Zeeshan
Department of Mathematics and Statistics (FBAS)
Email: nawaz_d2006@yahoo.com
Pakistan, Islamabad, 44000