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Melting phenomenon in magneto hydro-dynamics steady flow and heat transfer over a moving surface in the presence of thermal radiation

Chinese Physics B • 2013
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Authors Reda G. Abdel-Rahman, M. M. Khader, Ahmed M. Megahed
Keywords Lie group method; magneto hydro-dynamics; melting phenomenon; Newtonian fluid radiation; finite difference method
Journal Chinese Physics B
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Volume 22
Issue 3
Pages 1674-1056
publication.type International
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Abstract
The Lie group method is applied to present an analysis of the magneto hydro-dynamics (MHD) steady laminar flow and the heat transfer from a warm laminar liquid flow to a melting moving surface in the presence of thermal radiation. By using the Lie group method, we have presented the transformation groups for the problem with a part from the scaling group. The application of this method reduces the partial differential equations (PDEs) with their boundary conditions governing the flow and heat transfer to a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with appropriate boundary conditions. The resulting nonlinear system of ODEs is solved numerically using an implicit finite difference method (FDM). The local skin-friction coefficients and the local Nusselt numbers for different physical parameters are presented in a table.