Symmetry Reductions of a Flow with Power Law Fluid and Contaminant-Modified Viscosity
Centre for Differential Equations, Continuum Mechanics and Applications, School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Private Bag 3, Wits, 2050, South Africa
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Math. Comput. Appl. 2010, 15(4), 685-696; https://doi.org/10.3390/mca15040685
Published: 1 December 2010
Abstract
In this study symmetry analysis is carried out for a system dealing with nonreactive pollutant transport along a single channel. Constitutive equations obeying a power law fluid are used in the description of the mathematical problem. We obtain forms of the source term for which the governing system admits extra point symmetries. Invariant solutions which satisfy physical boundary conditions are constructed. In some cases we resort to numerical methods to obtain approximate solutions.
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Moitsheki, R.J.; Abelman, S.; Hayat, T. Symmetry Reductions of a Flow with Power Law Fluid and Contaminant-Modified Viscosity. Math. Comput. Appl. 2010, 15, 685-696. https://doi.org/10.3390/mca15040685
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Moitsheki RJ, Abelman S, Hayat T. Symmetry Reductions of a Flow with Power Law Fluid and Contaminant-Modified Viscosity. Mathematical and Computational Applications. 2010; 15(4):685-696. https://doi.org/10.3390/mca15040685
Chicago/Turabian StyleMoitsheki, R. J., S. Abelman, and T. Hayat. 2010. "Symmetry Reductions of a Flow with Power Law Fluid and Contaminant-Modified Viscosity" Mathematical and Computational Applications 15, no. 4: 685-696. https://doi.org/10.3390/mca15040685
