Modified generalized laguerre functions for a numerical investigation of flow and diffusion of chemically reactive species over a nonlinearly stretching sheet

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1578-1587

  Parand, Kourosh ^a   Bayat Babolghani, Fattaneh ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Chemical reaction; Collocation method; Modified generalized laguerre; Non linear stretching; Semi infinite; Stretching sheet

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876586187     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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