Melting heat transfer in the stagnation-point flow of Maxwell fluid with double-diffusive convection

作者：Hayat Tasawar; Farooq Muhammad^*; Alsaedi Ahmad

来源：International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, 2014, 24(3): 760-774.

DOI：10.1108/HFF-09-2012-0219

• Melting heat transfer
• Double-diffusive convection
• Stagnation-point flow

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze the melting heat transfer in the stagnation-point flow with double-diffusive convection.
Design/methodology/approach - Series solutions for velocity, temperature and concentration are constructed via homotopy analysis method.
Findings - The authors observed that the behaviors of N, ?2 and M on the velocity and boundary layer thickness are qualitatively similar. Further, for A<1 the velocity profile and boundary layer thickness increase with the increase of A. However, when A>1 then the velocity profile increases but the boundary layer thickness decreases when A is increased.
Originality/value - This analysis has not been discussed in the literature previously.

• 出版日期2014