Solution of the MHD Falkner-Skan flow by homotopy analysis method

In this work, an analysis is performed to find the series solution of the boundary layer Falkner-Skan equation for wedge. The boundary layer similarity equation takes into account a special form of the chosen magnetic field. The results are obtained by solving the nonlinear differential system by homotopy analysis method (HAM). Numerical solution for the skin friction coefficient is also tabulated and compared with HAM.     

On the similarity solutions of magnetohydrodynamic flows of power-law fluids over a stretching sheet

A rigorous mathematical analysis is given for a magnetohydrodynamics boundary layer problem, which arises in the two-dimensional steady laminar boundary layer flow for an incompressible electrically conducting power-law fluid along a stretching flat sheet in the presence of an exterior magnetic field orthogonal to the flow. In the self-similar case, the problem is transformed into a third-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation with certain boundary conditions, which is proved to be equivalent to a singular initial value problem for an integro-differential equation of first order. With the aid of the singular initial value problem, the uniqueness and existence results for (generalized) normal solutions are established and some properties of these solutions are explored.     

Heat and mass transfer in MHD non-Darcian flow of a micropolar fluid over a stretching sheet embedded in a porous media with non-uniform heat source and thermal radiation

A mathematical analysis has been carried out to study magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow, heat and mass transfer characteristic on steady two-dimensional flow of a micropolar fluid over a stretching sheet embedded in a non-Darcian porous medium with uniform magnetic field. Momentum boundary layer equation takes into account of transverse magnetic field whereas energy equation takes into account of Ohmic dissipation due to transverse magnetic field, thermal radiation and non-uniform source effects. An analysis has been performed for heating process namely the prescribed wall heat flux (PHF case). The governing system of partial differential equations is first transformed into a system of non-linear ordinary differential equations using similarity transformation. The transformed equations are non-linear coupled differential equations which are then linearized by quasi-linearization method and solved very efficiently by finite-difference method. Favorable comparisons with previously published work on various special cases of the problem are obtained. The effects of various physical parameters on velocity, temperature, concentration distributions are presented graphically and in tabular form.     

Unsteady MHD flow of a non-Newtonian fluid on a porous plate

This paper deals with the study of the MHD flow of non-Newtonian fluid on a porous plate. Two exact solutions for non-torsionally generated unsteady hydromagnetic flow of an electrically conducting second order incompressible fluid bounded by an infinite non-conducting porous plate subjected to a uniform suction or blowing have been analyzed. The governing partial differential equation for the flow has been established. The mathematical analysis is presented for the hydromagnetic boundary layer flow neglecting the induced magnetic field. The effect of presence of the material constants of the second order fluid on the velocity field is discussed.     

Hydromagnetic rotating flow of a fourth‐order fluid past a porous plate

The rotating flow in the presence of a magnetic field is a problem belonging to hydromagnetics and deserves to be more widely studied than it has been to date. In the non‐linear regime the literature is scarce. We develop the governing equations for the unsteady hydromagnetic rotating flow of a fourth‐order fluid past a porous plate. The steady flow is governed by a boundary value problem in which the order of differential equations is more than the number of available boundary conditions. It is shown that by augmenting the boundary conditions based on asymptotic structures at infinity it is possible to obtain numerical solutions of the nonlinear hydromagnetic equations. Effects of uniform suction or blowing past the porous plate, exerted magnetic field and rotation on the flow phenomena, especially on the boundary layer structure near the plate, are numerically analysed and discussed. The flow behaviours of the Newtonian fluid and second‐, third‐ and fourth‐order non‐Newtonian fluids are compared for the special flow problem, respectively. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

具有双参数的弱非线性方程的奇摄动解

讨论了一四阶具有双参数的弱非线性方程在有限区间上的奇摄动边值问题．在一定的假设下,首先,利用幂级数形式展开方法,构造了原问题的外部解A·D2其次,利用伸长变量,在左端点附近构造问题解的第一边界层校正项．然后,利用更强的伸长变量,仍然在左端点附近构造问题解的第二边界层校正项．第二边界层的厚度比第一边界层的厚度更小,形成在左端点附近的边界层的套层．最后利用微分不等式理论,证明了边值问题解的存在性、和在整个区间内一致有效性和渐近性态,得到了满意的结果．     

MHD Boundary Layers Theory in Sobolev Spaces Without Monotonicity I: Well-Posedness Theory

We study the well-posedness theory for the MHD boundary layer. The boundary layer equations are governed by the Prandtl-type equations that are derived from the incompressible MHD system with non-slip boundary condition on the velocity and perfectly conducting condition on the magnetic field. Under the assumption that the initial tangential magnetic field is not zero, we establish the local-i-time existence, uniqueness of solutions for the nonlinear MHD boundary layer equations. Compared with the well-posedness theory of the classical Prandtl equations for which the monotonicity condition of the tangential velocity plays a crucial role, this monotonicity condition is not needed for the MHD boundary layer. This justifies the physical understanding that the magnetic field has a stabilizing effect on MHD boundary layer in rigorous mathematics. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

A numerical study of boundary layer flow of viscous incompressible fluid past an inclined stretching sheet and heat transfer using nonpolynomial spline method

In the present paper, we study the boundary layer flow of viscous incompressible fluid over an inclined stretching sheet with body force and heat transfer. Considering the stream function, we convert the boundary layer equation into nonlinear third-order ordinary differential equation together with appropriate boundary conditions in an infinite domain. The nonlinear boundary value problem has been linearized by using the quasilinearization technique. Then, we develop a nonpolynomial spline method, which is used to solve the flow problem. The convergence analysis of the method is also discussed. We study the velocity function for different angles of inclination and Froude number with the help of various graphs and tables. Then using these in heat convection flow, we obtain the expression for temperature field. Skin friction is also calculated. The various results have been given in tables. At last, we calculated the Nusselt number.     

Magnetohydrodynamic non-Darcy mixed convection heat transfer from a vertical heated plate embedded in a porous medium with variable porosity

A numerical model is developed to study magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) mixed convection from a heated vertical plate embedded in a Newtonian fluid saturated sparsely packed porous medium by considering the variation of permeability, porosity and thermal conductivity. The boundary layer flow in the porous medium is governed by Forchheimer–Brinkman extended Darcy model. The conservation equations that govern the problem are reduced to a system of non-linear ordinary differential equations by using similarity transformations. Because of non-linearity, the governing equations are solved numerically. The effects of magnetic field on velocity and temperature distributions are studied in detail by considering uniform permeability (UP) and variable permeability (VP) of the porous medium and the results are discussed graphically. Besides, skin friction and Nusselt number are also computed for various physical parameters governing the problem under consideration. It is found that the inertial parameter has a significant influence in increasing the flow field and the rate of heat transfer for variable permeability case. The important finding of the present work is that the magnetic field has considerable effects on the boundary layer velocity and on the rate of heat transfer for variable permeability of the porous medium. Further, the results obtained under the limiting conditions were found to be in good agreement with the existing ones.     

MULTIPLE LAYER BEHAVIOR OF BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM FOR SINGULARLY PERTURBED n-TH ORDER NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION

In this paper,we study the singular perturbation of boundary value problem for a class of n-th order nonlinear differential equation,the solution is shown to exhibit multiple layer behavior.According to different layers and by introducing extended variable,we obtain the uniformly effective asymptotic expansion with different boundary layer correction term.     

Calculation of Transmission Coefficients for Generalized Propagation Problems

Generalized wave propagation takes place through a homogeneousslab governed by a differential equation of arbitrary even order,the elementary physical case being given when this order istwo. Approximation procedures are investigated whereby the transmissioncoefficient is calculated for highly overdense slabs, in sucha way that a correction term can be specified for the unit valueof the modulus of the reflection coefficient.     

Heat transfer in MHD viscoelastic boundary layer flow over a stretching sheet with non-uniform heat source/sink

This paper presents the study of momentum and heat transfer characteristics in a hydromagnetic flow of viscoelastic liquid over a stretching sheet with non-uniform heat source, where the flow is generated due to a linear stretching of the sheet and influenced by uniform magnetic field applied vertically. Here an analysis has been carried out to study the effect of magnetic field on the visco-elastic liquid flow and heat transfer over a stretching sheet with non-uniform heat source. The non-linear boundary layer equation for momentum is converted into ordinary differential equation by means of similarity transformation and is solved exactly. Heat transfer differential equation is also solved analytically. The effect of magnetic field on velocity, skin friction and temperature profiles are presented graphically and discussed.     

Nonaxisymmetric Free Convection Flow over a Rotating Disk in a Viscoelastic fluid with Magnetic Field

The non axisymmetric motion produced by a buoyancy-induced secondary flow of a viscoelastic fluid over an infinite rotating disk in a verticalplane with a magnetic field applied normal to the disk has been studied.The governing Navier Stokes equations and the energy equation admit a self similar solution. The system of ordinary differential equations has been solved numerically using Runge-Kutta Gill subroutine.The turning moment for the viscoelastic fluid is found to be less than that of the Newtonian fluid but the turning moment is increased due to the magnetic parameter. The resultant force due to the buoyancy-induced secondary flow increases with the magnetic parameter but reduces as the viscoelastic parameter increases. The quantity of fluid, which is pumped outwards due to the centrifuging action of the disk, for the viscoelastic fluid is more than that of the Newtonian fluid. The buoyancy-induced secondary flow boundary layer is much thicker than the primary boundary layer thickness. The thermal boundary layer due to the primary flow increases with the magnetic parameter decreases as the viscoelastic parameter increases. The heat transfer increases with the viscoelastic parameter but decreases as the magnetic parameter increases. The effect of the viscoelastic parameter is more pronounced on the secondary flow than on the primary flow.     

Systems of elliptic boundary value problems and applications to competition models

We generalize the main result on existence of nonzero nonnegative solutions of systems of second order elliptic boundary value problems obtained by Lan (2011). The motivation for the generalization is to propose and study the competition models of Ricker and Beverton–Holt types governed by such systems. To the best of our knowledge, there is little study on such continuous competition models although such difference equation and first order ordinary differential equation competition models have been widely studied. Our results enrich and develop the connections among the classical fixed point index theory, systems of second order elliptic boundary value problems and population dynamics.     

Analytic Study of Magnetohydrodynamic Flow and Boundary Layer Control Over a Wedge

A genuine variational principle developed by Gyarmati, in the field of thermodynamics of irreversible processes unifying the theoretical requirements of technical, environmental and biological sciences is employed to study the effects of uniform suction and injection on MHD flow adjacent to an isothermal wedge with pressure gradient in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. The velocity distribution inside the boundary layer has been considered as a simple polynomial function and the variational principle is formulated. The Euler-Lagrange equation is reduced to a simple polynomial equation in terms of momentum boundary layer thickness. The velocity profiles, displacement thickness and the coefficient of skin friction are calculated for various values of wedge angle parameter m, magnetic parameter ξ and suction/injection parameter H. The present results are compared with known available results and the comparison is found to be satisfactory. The present study establishes high accuracy of results obtained by this variational technique.     

A numerical solution of the elasticity problem of settled of the wronkler ground with variable coefficients

In this paper, we have given numerical solution of the elasticity problem of settled on the wronkler ground with variable coefficient. The approximation solution of boundary value problem which is pertinent to this has been converted to integral equations, and then by using the successive approximation methods, has been reached. In addition to this, the approximation solution of the problem was put into Padé series form. We applied these methods to an example which is the elasticity problem of unit length homogeny beam, which is a special form of boundary value problem. First we calculate the successive approximation of the given boundary value problem then transform it into Padé series form, which give an arbitrary order for solving differential equation numerically.     

含两参数的二阶常微分方程Cauchy问题解的多重层性质

研究含两参数的二阶常微分方程Cauchy问题解的多重层性质,根据不同层次引用不同的伸长变量,分别构造了具有不同量级的边界层校正项,从而证得关于解的一致有效的渐近展开式和有关的余项估计.     

Exponential stabilization of a flexible structure with a local interior control and under the presence of a boundary infinite memory

In this paper, we deal with the interior stabilization problem of a flexible structure governed by a hyperbolic partial differential equation coupled to two ordinary differential equations. Contrary to the previous works on the system, the boundary control is subject to the presence of an infinite memory term. In order to deal with such a nonlocal term, the minimal state approach is invoked. Specifically, a localized interior control is proposed in order to compensate the infinite memory effect. Thereafter, reasonable assumptions on the memory kernel are evoked so that the closed-loop system is shown to be well-posed thanks to semigroups theory of linear operators. Furthermore, the resolvent method is used to establish the exponential stability of the system.     

The singular perturbation of boundary value problem for third-order nonlinear vector integro-differential equation and its application

In this paper, the singular perturbation of boundary value problem to a class of third-order nonlinear vector integro-differential equation is studied. Using the method of differential inequalities, under certain conditions, the existence of perturbed solution is proved, the uniformly valid asymptotic expansion for arbitrary order and the estimation of remainder term are given. Finally, the results are applied to study singularly perturbed boundary value problem to a nonlinear vector fourth-order differential equation. The existence of solution and its asymptotic estimation can be obtained conveniently.     

Approximate Controllability of a Semilinear System Involving a Fully Nonlinear Gradient Term

This paper concerns a control system governed by a semilinear degenerate equation involving a fully nonlinear gradient term. The equation may be weakly degenerate and strongly degenerate on a portion of the lateral boundary, and the gradient term can be controlled by the diffusion term. The linearized system is shown to be approximately controllable by constructing a control by means of its conjugate problem. By doing a series of precise compactness estimates, we prove that the semilinear system is approximately controllable.