A Study on the Convergence of Series Solution of Non-Newtonian Third Grade Fluid with Variable Viscosity By Means of Homotopy Analysis Method.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Mathematical Physics Volume 2012, Article ID 634925, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2012/634925 Research Article A Study on the Convergence of Series Solution of Non-Newtonian Third Grade Fluid with Variable Viscosity: By Means of Homotopy Analysis Method R. Ellahi1, 2 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Riverside, Bourns Hall, A373, Riverside, CA 92521, USA 2 Department of Mathematics Statistics, FBAS, IIU, H-10, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan Correspondence should be addressed to R. Ellahi, rellahi@ Received 14 December 2011; Accepted 27 January 2012 ¨ Academic Editor: Teoman Ozer Copyright q 2012 R. Ellahi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This work is concerned with the series solutions for the flow of third-grade non-Newtonian fluid with variable viscosity. Due to the nonlinear, coupled, and highly complicated nature of partial differential equations, finding an analytical solution is not an easy task. The homotopy analysis method HAM is employed for the presentation of series solutions. The HAM is accepted as an elegant tool for effective solutions for complicated nonlinear problems. The solutions of Hayat et al., 2007 are developed, and their convergence has been discussed explicitly for two different models, namely, constant and variable viscosity. An error analysis is also described. In addition, the obtained results are illustrated graphically to depict the convergence region. The physical features of the pertinent parameters are presented in the form of numerical tables. 1. Intro