Application of Multi-Step Differential Transform Method on Flow of a Second-Grade Fluid over a Stretching or Shrinking Sheet英文文献资料.docVIP

American Journal of Computational Mathematics, 2011, 6, 119-128 doi:10.4236/ajcm.2011.12012 Published Online June 2011 (/journal/ajcm) Application of Multi-Step Differential Transform Method on Flow of a Second-Grade Fluid over a Stretching or Shrinking Sheet Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi , Ali J. Chamkha , Mohammad Keimanesh 1, 2 3 1 1 Mechanical Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran Department of Genius Mechanical, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada 2 3 Manufacturing Engineering Department, The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, Shuweikh, Kuwait E-mail: mm_rashidi@ Received April 8, 2011; revised May 20, 2011; accepted June 1, 2011 Abstract In this study, a reliable algorithm to develop approximate solutions for the problem of fluid flow over a stretching or shrinking sheet is proposed. It is depicted that the differential transform method (DTM) solu- tions are only valid for small values of the independent variable. The DTM solutions diverge for some dif- ferential equations that extremely have nonlinear behaviors or have boundary-conditions at infinity. For this reason the governing boundary-layer equations are solved by the Multi-step Differential Transform Method (MDTM). The main advantage of this method is that it can be applied directly to nonlinear differential equa- tions without requiring linearization, discretization, or perturbation. It is a semi analytical-numerical tech- nique that formulizes Taylor series in a very different manner. By applying the MDTM the interval of con- vergence for the series solution is increased. The MDTM is treated as an algorithm in a sequence of intervals for finding accurate approximate solutions for systems of differential equations. It is predicted that the MDTM can be applied to a wide range of engineering applica