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Melting heat transfer in boundary layer stagnation-point flow towards a stretching/shrinking sheet.


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Bachok @ Lati, Norfifah and Ishak, Anuar and Ioan, Pop (2010) Melting heat transfer in boundary layer stagnation-point flow towards a stretching/shrinking sheet. Physics Letters A, 374 (40). pp. 4075-4079. ISSN 0375-9601

Abstract

An analysis is carried out to study the steady two-dimensional stagnation-point flow and heat transfer from a warm, laminar liquid flow to a melting stretching/shrinking sheet. The governing partial differential equations are converted into ordinary differential equations by similarity transformation, before being solved numerically using the Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg method. Results for the skin friction coefficient, local Nusselt number, velocity profiles as well as temperature profiles are presented for different values of the governing parameters. Effects of the melting parameter, stretching/shrinking parameter and Prandtl number on the flow and heat transfer characteristics are thoroughly examined. Different from a stretching sheet, it is found that the solutions for a shrinking sheet are non-unique.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Science
DOI Number: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2010.08.032
Publisher: Elsevier
Keywords: Melting; Heat transfer; Stagnation-point flow; Stretching/shrinking sheet; Dual solutions.
Depositing User: Najwani Amir Sariffudin
Date Deposited: 16 Oct 2013 07:12
Last Modified: 01 Sep 2015 03:15
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15604
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