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On the hydromagnetic boundary layer flow past a flat plate

Über die hydromagnetische Grenzschichtströmung an der ebenen Platte

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The Falkner-Skan transformation has been generalized to study the boundary layer flow of a viscous incompressible conducting fluid past a flat plate in the presence of a uniform transverse magnetic field fixed to the plate. Keeping the convergence aspect in view series solution, different from the conventional, for the velocity boundary layer has been developed. It is found that only few terms in the series expansion are enough to give the skin-friction coefficient to a good degree of accuracy.

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Die Falkner-Skan-Transformation wird verallgemeinert für den Fall der Grenzschichtströmung eines leitenden, zähen, inkompressiblen Mediums längs einer ebenen Platte in einem konstanten Magnetfeld senkrecht zur Platte. Es wird eine neue Reihenentwicklung mit guten Konvergenzeigenschaften für die Geschwindigkeit in der Grenzschicht hergeleitet. Hier reichen wenige Terme der Reihenentwicklung aus, um den Koeffizienten der Oberflächenreibung in guter Genauigkeit zu bestimmen.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Jodhpur, 342 001, Jodhpur, India

    J. L. Bansal

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Bansal, J.L. On the hydromagnetic boundary layer flow past a flat plate. Acta Mechanica 41, 35–40 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01246902

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