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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL REACTOR ENGINEERING
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/ijcre-2014-0090
Keywords
Powell-Eyring; thermophoresis; stretching sheet; MHD; thermal radiation
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The present paper deals with the effect of surface heat and mass transfer on magnetohydrodynamic flow of Powell-Eyring fluid over a vertical stretching sheet. The effects of thermophoresis, Joule heating and chemical reaction are also considered. The governing non-linear partial differential equations of the model are transformed into coupled non-linear ordinary differential equations using a similarity transformation and solved numerically by Runge-Kutta method and analytically by homotopy analysis method (HAM). The convergence is carefully checked by plotting (h) over barh-curves. For different dimensionless parameters, numerical and analytical calculations are carried out and an investigation of the obtained results shows that the flow field is influenced considerably by the buoyancy ratio and thermal radiation, chemical reaction and magnetic field parameters. A totally analytical and consistently applicable solution is derived which agrees with numerical results.
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