Investigation of heat transfer in flow of Burgers’ fluid during a melting process

Awais, M.; Hayat, T.; Alsaedi, A.

doi:10.21608/joems.2015.382556

Investigation of heat transfer in flow of Burgers’ fluid during a melting process

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Department of Mathematics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Attock 43600, Pakistan

² Department of Mathematics, Quaid-i-Azam University, 45320, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan

³ Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80257, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

10.21608/joems.2015.382556

Abstract

The heat transfer analysis during melting process in steady flow of an incompressible
Burgers’ fluid over stretching surface is investigated. The two-dimensional flow equations are modeled and then simplified by employing boundary layer analysis. The solution to the arising nonlinear
problem is computed. Interpretation of various emerging parameters is given through graphs for
velocity and temperature fields. Furthermore tables are constructed in order to show a comparative
study with the previous published results. Comparison shows an excellent agreement with the previous limiting investigations in the field.

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