Effects of variable fluid viscosity on flow past a heated stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium in presence of heat source/sink

Meccanica

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 863-876

  Mukhopadhyay, Swati ^a   Layek, G C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN   (India)

Author keywords

Heat generation absorption; Porous medium; Scaling group of transformations; Stretching sheet; Temperature dependent fluid viscosity

Indexed keywords

HEAT GENERATION/ABSORPTION; POROUS MEDIUM; SCALING GROUP; STRETCHING SHEET; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT FLUID VISCOSITY;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 84861801833     PISSN: 00256455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11012-011-9457-6     Document Type: Article

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