Heat transfer analysis for squeezing flow between parallel disks

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, University Road, Abbottabad, Pakistan

2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, HITEC University, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

Abstract

t Heat transfer analysis for the squeezing magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) flow of a viscous incompressible fluid between parallel disks is considered. Upper disk is movable in upward
and downward directions while the lower disk is fixed but permeable. Viable similarity transforms
are used to convert the conservation law equations to a system of nonlinear ordinary differential
equations. Resulting system is solved by using variational iteration method (VIM). Influence of flow
parameters is discussed and numerical solution is sought using RK-4 method. A convergent
solution is obtained just after few numbers of iterations.

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