Lie group analysis for the effects of temperature-dependent fluid viscosity and chemical reaction on MHD free convective heat and mass transfer with variable stream conditions

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-46

  Kandasamy, Ramasamy ^a   Ismoen, Muhaimin ^a   Saim, Hashim Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TUN HUSSEIN ONN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE HEAT; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE; FLUID VELOCITIES; FLUID VISCOSITY; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID; LIE GROUP ANALYSIS; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC-FIELD INTENSITY; MOMENTUM EQUATION; SCALING GROUP; SECOND-ORDER ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STREAM CONDITION; STRETCHING SHEET; STRETCHING SURFACE; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT FLUID VISCOSITY; THERMAL RADIATIONS; THIRD-ORDER ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC FIELD; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VERTICAL STRETCHING SURFACES;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; FLUIDS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MASS TRANSFER; NEWTONIAN FLOW; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISCOSITY;

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 71249153957     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2009.08.012     Document Type: Article

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