Study on MHD Viscous Flow over a Stretching Sheet Using DTM-Pade’ Technique

Mohammadreza Azimi, Davood Domiri Ganji, Farhad Abbassi

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Babol University of Technology, Babol, Iran.

DOI: 10.4236/mme.2012.24016                

Abstract

In this paper, we present the study of momentum characteristics in a MHD viscous flow over a stretching sheet. First the partial differential equations of motion have been transformed to an ordinary differential equation. The analytical method called Differential Transformation Method (DTM) powered by the Pade’ approximation is applied to solve the nonlinear equation derived from MHD viscous flow over a stretching sheet, the effect of parameters variation has been investigated for two numerical cases and finally the analytical results have been compared with numerical one in a numerical case. The obtained results approve its efficiencies and capabilities beside numerical solutions achieved from Runge Kutta method.

Keywords

MHD Viscous Flow; Stretching Sheet; Differential Transformation Method; Pade Approximant

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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