WSEAS Transactions on Fluid Mechanics
Print ISSN: 1790-5087, E-ISSN: 2224-347X
Volume 13, 2018
Boundary Layer Slip Flow and Heat Transfer over an Exponential Shrinking Sheet
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Abstract: The boundary layer slip flow with heat transfer over a permeable exponential shrinking sheet with mass flux at the boundary is studied. Using similarity transformation in exponential form, similarity equations are obtained which are then solved numerically by finite difference method using MATLAB solver bvpc45. The numerical results show that dual solutions exist beyond a certain value of mass suction and the range of mass suction parameter for which the solution exists expands with the velocity slip parameter. A stability analysis has been conducted to show that first solution branch is stable while the second is always unstable.