《MHD effect of mixed convection boundarylayer flow of PowellEyring fluid past nonlinear stretching surface》.pdfVIP

Appl. Math. Mech. -Engl. Ed., 35(12), 1525–1540 (2014) Applied Mathematics DOI 10.1007/s10483-014-1888-6 and Mechanics c Shanghai University and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 (English Edition) MHD effect of mixed convection boundary-layer flow of Powell-Eyring fluid past nonlinear stretching surface∗ 1,2 1 1,2 S. PANIGRAHI , M. REZA , A. K. MISHRA (1. Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Science Technology, Berhampur 761008, India; 2. Department of Mathematics, Berhampur University, Berhampur 760007, India) Abstract Sufficient conditions are found for the existence of similar solutions of the mixed convection flow of a Powell-Eyring fluid over a nonlinear stretching permeable sur- face in the presence of magnetic field. To achieve this, one parameter linear group trans- formation is applied. The governing momentum and energy equations are transformed to nonlinear ordinary differential equations by use of a similarity transformation. These equations are solved by the homotopy analysis method (HAM) to obtain the approximate solutions. The effects of magnetic field, suction, and buoyancy on the Powell-Eyring fluid flow with heat transfer inside the boundary layer are analyzed. The effects of the non- Newtonian fluid (Powell-Eyring model) parameters ε and δ on the skin friction and local heat transfer coefficients for the cases of aiding and opposite flows are investigated and discussed. It is observed that t