Melting heat transfer in an axisymmetric stagnation-point flow of the Jeffrey fluid

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 si...

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Published inJournal of applied mechanics and technical physics Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 308 - 316
Main Authors Nawaz, M., Hayat, T., Zeeshan, A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01.03.2016
Subjects
Applications of Mathematics
Axisymmetric
Classical and Continuum Physics
Classical Mechanics
Differential equations
Fluid flow
Fluid- and Aerodynamics
Fluids
Heat transfer
Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Melting
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Sheets
Similarity
Jeffrey fluid
Nusselt number
melting heat transfer
stagnation-point flow
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Summary: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.
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ISSN:0021-8944
1573-8620
DOI:10.1134/S0021894416020140