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Z. Naturforsch. 67a, 460 – 468
(2012)
doi:10.5560/ZNA.2012-0050
Study of the Rate Type Fluid with Temperature Dependent Viscosity
1 Modern Textile Institute, Donghua University, 1882 Yan'an Xilu Road, Shanghai 200051, China
2 Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Received January 4, 2012 / revised April 26, 2012 / published online August 2, 2012
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This paper outlines a comprehensive study of the two dimensional flow of an incompressible viscoelastic fluid over a shrinking/stretching sheet with temperature dependent viscosity. The governing coupled nonlinear differential equations are solved by means of the homotopy analysis method (HAM). The results are presented graphically to interpret various physical parameters appearing in the problem. The solution procedure explicitly elucidates the remarkable accuracy of the proposed algorithm.
Key words: Homotopy Analysis Method; Variable Viscosity.