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Group Method Analysis of MHD Mixed Convective Flow Past on a Moving Curved Surface with Suction
Department of Mathematics, Gouripur M.F.R. Government College, Comilla, Bangladesh
Department of Mathematics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Department of Mathematics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- 1 Department of Mathematics, Gouripur M.F.R. Government College, Comilla, Bangladesh
- 2 Department of Mathematics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- 3 Department of Mathematics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
American Journal of Computational Mathematics·Volume 06 (2016)·Pages 74–87·Published 27 April 2016·DOI10.4236/ajcm.2016.62009
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Abstract
The group-theorytic approach is applied for solving the problem of the unsteady MHD mixed convective flow past on a moving curved surface. The application of two-parameter groups reduces the number of independent variables by two, and consequently the system of governing partial differential equations with boundary conditions reduces to a system of ordinary differential equations with appropriate boundary conditions. The obtained ordinary differential equations are solved numerically using the shooting method. The effects of varying parameters governing the problem are studied. A comparison with previous work is presented.
KeywordsMoving Curved SurfaceMHD FlowTwo-Parameter Group-Theory MethodBuoyancy ParameterSuction
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