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Numerical Analysis of the Mixed Flow of a Non-Newtonian Fluid over a Stretching Sheet with Thermal Radiation

by Nourhan I. Ghoneim^1,*, Ahmed M. Megahed²

1 Maritime Department-Marine Engineering, International Maritime College Oman (IMCO), Suhar, 322, Sultanate of Oman
2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha, 13518, Egypt

* Corresponding Author: Nourhan I. Ghoneim. Email:

Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing 2023, 19(2), 407-419. https://doi.org/10.32604/fdmp.2022.020508

Received 27 November 2021; Accepted 07 March 2022; Issue published 29 August 2022

Abstract

A mathematical model is elaborated for the laminar flow of an Eyring-Powell fluid over a stretching sheet. The considered non-Newtonian fluid has Prandtl number larger than one. The effects of variable fluid properties and heat generation/absorption are also discussed. The balance equations for fluid flow are reduced to a set of ordinary differential equations through a similarity transformation and solved numerically using a Chebyshev spectral scheme. The effect of various parameters on the rate of heat transfer in the thermal boundary regime is investigated, i.e., thermal conductivity, the heat generation/absorption ratio and the mixed convection parameter. Good agreement appears to exist between theoretical predictions and the existing published results.

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