The effects of variable viscosity and thermal conductivity on a thin film flow over a shrinking/stretching sheet

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3391-3399

  Khan, Yasir ^a   Wu, Qingbiao ^a   Faraz, Naeem ^b   Yildirim, Ahmet ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Homotopy perturbation method (HPM); Stretching shrinking sheet; Thin film; Variable thermal conductivity; Variable viscosity

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER EQUATIONS; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; HOMOTOPY PERTURBATION METHOD; HOMOTOPY PERTURBATION METHOD (HPM); LAMINAR LIQUID FILMS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SIMILARITY TRANSFORMATION; THIN FILM FLOW; VARIABLE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VARIABLE VISCOSITY;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; LIQUID FILMS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; THIN FILMS; VISCOSITY;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

EID: 79956344151     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2011.04.053     Document Type: Article

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