Falkner-Skan boundary layer flow of a power-law fluid past a stretching wedge

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 217, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4359-4368

  Postelnicu, A ^a   Pop, I ^b  

^a TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Dual solutions; Mass transfer; Moving wedge; Power law fluid

Indexed keywords

A-STABILITY; BLASIUS PROBLEM; DUAL SOLUTIONS; FALKNER-SKAN; FLUID POWER; FREE STREAM; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; LOWER SOLUTION; MOVING WEDGE; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; PARAMETER SPACES; POWER LAW FLUID; RUNGE-KUTTA; SELF-SIMILAR FLOW; SHOOTING PROCEDURE; STREAMFUNCTIONS; THIRD ORDER; UPPER SOLUTION; VELOCITY PARAMETERS; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; FLUIDS; HYDRAULICS; MASS TRANSFER; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

LAMINAR BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 78650169529     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2010.09.037     Document Type: Article

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