Differential transformation method for studying flow and heat transfer due to stretching sheet embedded in porous medium with variable thickness, variable thermal conductivity,and thermal radiation

This article presents a numerical solution for the flow of a Newtonian fluid over an impermeable stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium with the power law surface velocity and variable thickness in the presence of thermal radiation. The flow is caused by non-linear stretching of a sheet. Thermal conductivity of the fluid is assumed to vary linearly with temperature. The governing partial differential equations （PDEs） are transformed into a system of coupled non-linear ordinary differential equations （ODEs） with appropriate boundary conditions for various physical parameters. The remaining system of ODEs is solved numerically using a differential transformation method （DTM）. The effects of the porous parameter, the wall thickness parameter, the radiation parameter, the thermal conductivity parameter, and the Prandtl number on the flow and temperature profiles are presented. Moreover, the local skin-friction and the Nusselt numbers are presented. Comparison of the obtained numerical results is made with previously published results in some special cases, with good agreement. The results obtained in this paper confirm the idea that DTM is a powerful mathematical tool and can be applied to a large class of linear and non-linear problems in different fields of science and engineering.

Effect of slip velocity on Casson thin film flow and heat transfer due to unsteady stretching sheet in presence of variable heat flux and viscous dissipation

The aim of the present paper is to study flow and heat transfer charac- teristics of a viscous Casson thin film flow over an unsteady stretching sheet subject to variable heat flux in the presence of slip velocity condition and viscous dissipation. The governing equations are partial differential equations. They are reduced to a set of highly nonlinear ordinary differential equations by suitable similarity transformations. The re- sulting similarity equations are solved numerically with a shooting method. Comparisons with previous works are macle, and the results are found to be in excellent agreement. In the present work, the effects of the unsteadiness parameter, the Casson parameter, the Eckert number, the slip velocity parameter, and the Prandtl number on flow and heat transfer characteristics are discussed. Also, the local skin-friction coefficient and the local Nusselt number at the stretching sheet are computed and discussed.

Carreau fluid flow due to nonlinearly stretching sheet with thermal radiation, heat flux, and variable conductivity

A sophisticated theoretical and mathematical model is proposed.It is verified that this model can estimate and monitor the detailed behavior for the steady Carreau fluid flow past a nonlinear stretching surface and the predicted phenomena due to the presence of heat flux,thermal radiation,and viscous dissipation.Despite the fact that some properties of the fluid do not depend on the temperature,the fluid thermal conductivity is assumed to depend on the temperature.Based on accelerating the fluid elements,some of the kinetic energy for the fluid can be turned to the internal heating energy in the form of viscous dissipation phenomena.The contribution in this study is that a similar solution is obtained,in spite of the high nonlinearity of the Carreau model,especially,with the heat flux,variable conductivity,and viscous dissipation phenomena.Some of the major significant findings of this study can be observed from the reduction in the fluid velocity with enhancing the Weissenberg number.Likewise,the increase in the sheet temperature is noted with increasing the Eckert number while the reverse behavior is observed for increasing both the radiation parameter and the conductivity parameter.Finally,the accuracy and trust in the proposed numerical method are validated after benchmarking for our data onto the earlier results.