https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2011-11047-3
Regular Article
MHD flow through a porous medium adjacent to a stretching sheet: Numerical and an approximate solution
Department of Mathematics, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 302055, India
* e-mail: dileepschauhan@gmail.com
Received:
22
November
2010
Accepted:
30
March
2011
Published online:
10
May
2011
A viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid flow through a porous medium over a stretching sheet is considered in the presence of a magnetic field. Such flow problems have relevance in the process of a polymer sheet extrusion from a dye, and the numerical and approximate solutions of these problems are of great interest as these solutions serve practical purposes. By using the technique of stretching variables of the flow concern in porous medium and minimizing the residual of the resulting governing differential equations by the least squares method, we obtained an approximate solution for this problem of flow through porous medium near a stretching sheet. The results are also compared to a numerical solution determined by using the shooting method along with the Runge-Kutta method. The effects of various pertinent parameters on the velocity distribution and the residual function are investigated. The results are depicted graphically and discussed.
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