Mixed convection in the stagnation-point flow of a Maxwell fluid towards a vertical stretching surface

Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3218-3228

  Abbas, Z ^a,b   Wang, Y ^a   Hayat, T ^c   Oberlack, M ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

HAM solution; Heat transfer; Maxwell fluid; Numerical solution; Stagnation point flow; Stretching sheet

Indexed keywords

HAM SOLUTIONS; MAXWELL FLUID; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; STAGNATION-POINT FLOW; STRETCHING SHEET;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; FLUIDS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MIXED CONVECTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUSSELT NUMBER; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 77955768945     PISSN: 14681218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2009.11.016     Document Type: Article

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