Melting heat transfer in the stagnation-point flow of an upper-convected Maxwell (UCM) fluid past a stretching sheet

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 233-243

  Hayat, T ^a,b   Mustafa, M ^a   Shehzad, S A ^a   Obaidat, S ^b  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

HAM solution; Maxwell fluid; Melting heat transfer; Stagnation point flow

Indexed keywords

DEBORAH NUMBERS; DECREASING FUNCTIONS; HAM SOLUTIONS; HOMOTOPY ANALYSIS METHODS; LOCAL NUSSELT NUMBER; MAXWELL FLUID; MELTING HEAT TRANSFER; NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL SYSTEMS; RHEOLOGICAL MODELS; STAGNATION-POINT FLOW; STEADY LAMINAR BOUNDARY LAYERS; STRETCHING RATIOS; STRETCHING SHEET; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; UPPER-CONVECTED MAXWELL FLUIDS; VARIATION OF PARAMETERS;

FLUIDS; LAMINAR BOUNDARY LAYER; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUSSELT NUMBER;

MELTING;

EID: 81255176158     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2503     Document Type: Article

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