Influence of thermal radiation on the unsteady mixed convection flow of a Jeffrey fluid over a stretching sheet

Abstract

This study is concerned with the effect of thermal radiation on the unsteady mixed convection flow of a Jeffrey fluid past a porous vertical stretching surface. The arising problems of flow and heat transfer are solved analytically by employing homotopy analysis method (HAM). It is observed that the flow field is influenced appreciably by the unsteadiness parameter ζ, suction parameter S, mixed convection parameter λ, Deborah number β, Prandtl number Pr, and the radiation parameter Nr. Our performed computations depict that the heat transfer rate is increased with increasing values of Pr, Nr, and ζ. © 2010 Verlag der Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, Tübingen.