Unsteady three-dimensional boundary layer flow due to a permeable shrinking sheet
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Abstract
The unsteady viscous flow over a continuously permeable shrinking surface is studied. Similarity equations are obtained through the application of similar transformation techniques. Numerical techniques are used to solve the similarity equations for different values of the unsteadiness parameter, the mass suction parameter, the shrinking parameter and the Prandtl number on the velocity and temperature profiles as well as the skin friction coefficient and the Nusselt number. It is found that, different from an unsteady stretching sheet, dual solutions exist in a certain range of mass suction and unsteadiness parameters.
Keywords
Unsteady, three-dimensional flow, boundary layer, shrinking sheet, dual solution
Divisions
MathematicalSciences
Publication Title
Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
Volume
31
Issue
11
Publisher
Kluwer (now part of Springer)
Publisher Location
149 YANCHANG RD, SHANGHAI 200072, PEOPLES R CHINA