Study of Boundary Layer Convective Heat Transfer with Low Pressure Gradient Over a Flat Plate Via He’s Homotopy Perturbation Method

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic, Tehran, Iran

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The boundary layer convective heat transfer equations with low pressure gradient over a flat plate are solved using Homotopy Perturbation Method (HPM), which is one of the semi-exact methods. The nonlinear equations of momentum and energy solved simultaneously via HPM are in good agreement with results obtained from numerical methods. Using this method, a general equation in terms of Pr number and pressure gradient (λ) is derived which can be used to investigate velocity and temperature profiles in the boundary layer.

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