Numerical simulation for the unsteady MHD flow and heat transfer of couple stress fluid over a rotating disk

The present work is devoted to study the numerical simulation for unsteady MHD flow and heat transfer of a couple stress fluid over a rotating disk. A similarity transformation is employed to reduce the time dependent system of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) to ordinary differential...

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Veröffentlicht in:PloS one 2014-05, Vol.9 (5), p.e95423-e95423
Hauptverfasser: Khan, Najeeb Alam, Aziz, Shahnila, Khan, Nadeem Alam
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The present work is devoted to study the numerical simulation for unsteady MHD flow and heat transfer of a couple stress fluid over a rotating disk. A similarity transformation is employed to reduce the time dependent system of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) to ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The Runge-Kutta method and shooting technique are employed for finding the numerical solution of the governing system. The influences of governing parameters viz. unsteadiness parameter, couple stress and various physical parameters on velocity, temperature and pressure profiles are analyzed graphically and discussed in detail.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0095423