Different Approximations to the Solution of Upper-Convected Maxwell Fluid over a Porous Stretching Plate

Vasile Marinca, Remus-Daniel Ene, Bogdan Marinca and Romeo Negrea

Abstract and Applied Analysis, 2014, vol. 2014, 1-12

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In the present paper, we consider an incompressible magnetohydrodynamic flow of two-dimensional upper-convected Maxwell fluid over a porous stretching plate with suction and injection. The nonlinear partial differential equations are reduced to an ordinary differential equation by the similarity transformations and taking into account the boundary layer approximations. This equation is solved approximately by means of the optimal homotopy asymptotic method (OHAM). This approach is highly efficient and it controls the convergence of the approximate solutions. Different approximations to the solution are given, showing the exceptionally good agreement between the analytical and numerical solutions of the nonlinear problem. OHAM is very efficient in practice, ensuring a very rapid convergence of the solutions after only one iteration even though it does not need small or large parameters in the governing equation.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1155/2014/139314

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