Similarity analysis of a nonlinear fin equation

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 378-384

  Pakdemirli, M ^a   Sahin, A Z ^b  

^a CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Fins; Heat transfer; Similarity transformations

Indexed keywords

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FUNCTIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ARBITRARY FUNCTION; SIMILARITY TRANSFORMATIONS; SPIRAL GROUP SYMMETRIES;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 31144471512     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aml.2005.04.017     Document Type: Article

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