Unsteady Squeezing Flow of a Viscous MHD Fluid Between Parallel Plates, a Solution Using the Homotopy Perturbation Method
Journal Title: Mathematical Modelling and Analysis - Year 2008, Vol 13, Issue 4
Abstract
The present paper analyses the unsteady 2-dimensional flow of a viscous MHD fluid between two parallel infinite plates. The two infinite plates are considered to be approaching each other symmetrically, causing the squeezing flow. A similarity transformation is used to reduce the partial differential equations modeling the flow, to a single fourth-order non-linear differential equation containing the Reynolds number and the magnetic field strength as parameters. The velocity functions are obtained for a range of values of both parameters by using the homotopy perturbation method. The total resistance to the upper plate is presented.
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A. Siddiqui, S. Irum
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- DOI 10.3846/1392-6292.2008.13.565-57
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