Galerkin-Legendre spectral method for the velocity and thermal boundary layers over a non-linearly stretching sheet

Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 735-741

  Akyildiz, F Talay ^a   Siginer, Dennis A ^a  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Galerkin Legendre spectral method; Nonlinear third order differential equations; Similarity transforms

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; FIELD EQUATION; GALERKIN; LEGENDRE; LINEAR ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; NONLINEAR ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; NONUNIQUENESS; PHYSICAL DOMAIN; PHYSICAL STATE; SEMI-INFINITE; SIMILARITY TRANSFORMATION; SPECTRAL METHODS; STRETCHING SHEET; TEMPERATURE FIELD; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER; THIRD ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VARIABLE COEFFICIENTS; VELOCITY FIELD; VELOCITY GRADIENTS; VISCOUS FLUIDS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; GALERKIN METHODS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPECTROSCOPY; VELOCITY;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 70449623989     PISSN: 14681218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2009.01.018     Document Type: Article

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