Solution of the Falkner–Skan wedge flow by a revised optimal homotopy asymptotic method
- A. G. Madaki1Email author,
- M. Abdulhameed2,
- M. Ali1 and
- R. Roslan1
Received: 15 December 2015
Accepted: 12 April 2016
Published: 26 April 2016
Abstract
In this paper, a revised optimal homotopy asymptotic method (OHAM) is applied to derive an explicit analytical solution of the Falkner–Skan wedge flow problem. The comparisons between the present study with the numerical solutions using (fourth order Runge–Kutta) scheme and with analytical solution using HPM-Padé of order [4/4] and order [13/13] show that the revised form of OHAM is an extremely effective analytical technique.
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Background
This equation was first stated by Falkner and Skan (1931). Though, later on their solutions and dependency on the parameter β were investigated by Hartree (1937). The solutions of Falkner–Skan equation have been analytically investigated by many scholars. Abbasbandy and Hayat (2009) studied the solution of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Falkner–Skan flow by homotopy analysis method (HAM). They found that the value of skin friction increases with the increase of magnetic field parameter, while the boundary layer thickness decreases. Yao (2009) investigated the temperature distribution in the Falkner–Skan wedge flow using HAM. Analytical solutions of momentum and heat transfer of the Falkner–Skan flow with algebraic decay have been studied by Fang et al. (2012). They observed that the value of the flow controlling parameter, b decreases with the decrease of the wall movement parameter, λ. Although, the value of the wall mass transfer, γ first decreases and then increases, while the wall temperature gradient increases with the decrease of pole number, n and the increase of Prandtl number, Pr. Hayat et al. (2011) studied the porous medium and mixed convection of Falkner–Skan wedge flow of a power-law fluid using HAM, their results show that dimensionless velocity distribution decreases with the increase in Pr. It was observed that the velocity profile increases when the Reynolds number, Re is increased. Yao and Chen (2009) found the series solution to the Falkner–Skan equation with stretching boundary using HAM and compared their results numerically by fourth-order Runge–Kutta method combined with Newton–Raphson technique. A good agreement was found between both approximate analytical solution and numerical result. A numerical method for the solution of the Falkner–Skan equation was investigated using a shooting method by Asaithambi (1997). Asaithambi (1997) was able to obtain the accelerating, constant, decelerating, and reverse flows numerically. The solution of the Falkner–Skan equation for wedge using Adomian decomposition method (ADM) by Alizadeh et al. (2009) indicated that the percentage of error decreases by increasing the number of the ADM terms. Rajagopal et al. (1983) investigated the Falkner–Skan boundary layer flow of a homogeneous incompressible second grade fluid past a wedge placed symmetrically with respect to the fluid flow direction. Moreover, many researchers devoted themselves on investigating the problem of Falkner–Skan flow (Kuo 2005; Pantokratoras 2006; Ishak et al. 2009; Zhu et al. 2009; Rosales-Vera and Valencia 2010; Hsiao 2011; Yacob et al. 2011; Parand et al. 2011; Abdulhameed et al. 2015).
The aim of this paper is to obtain an explicit analytical solution of the Falkner–Skan equation by using a revised OHAM which introduces another function in the auxiliary function in the original OHAM (Marinca and Herisanu 2008, 2014) which is quite good enough to handle the strong challenges in nonlinear differential equations. Recently, Herisanu et al. (2015) studied an analytical approach to non-linear dynamical model of a permanent magnet synchronous generator using OHAM. They studied four different cases at various moments of inertia and electrical resistances specific to sudden short circuit produced at the generator terminals and sudden change of load. They found very promising results when validated with numerical solutions. However, this study will be compared with the numerical solution as well as the solutions by Bararnia et al. (2012) for the acceleration flow (β > 0) and Rajagopal et al. (1983).
Basic idea of revised OHAM (Marinca and Herisanu 2008, 2014)
It should be emphasized that \(f_{k}\) for integer \(k \ge 0\) are governed by the linear Eqs. (6), (9), and (10) with the linear boundary conditions that came from origin problem, which can be solved easily.
With these convergence-control parameters known, the approximate solution (of order \(m\)) (13) is well-determined. Furthermore, the convergence-control parameters \(C_{ij}\) can be obtained using the methods such as Galerkin, Ritz, least square or collocation.
It is easy to observe that so-called homotopy perturbation method (HPM) is a special case of Eq. (4) when \(H\left( p \right) = - p\), and on the other hand, HAM is another special case of Eq. (4) when \(H\left( p \right) = - ph\) (where the parameter \(h\) is chosen from so-called \(h\)-curves), and they can all be used to determine the parameters \(C_{ij}\). While an important feature of the OHAM is that using Eq. (16), a minimization of errors is obtained.
Analytical solution of Falkner–Skan equation
From now on, for simplification we will write \(C_{1} ,C_{2}\) and \(C_{3}\) instead of \(C_{11} , C_{12}\) and \(C_{13}\), respectively.
From Eq. (16), this becomes
Comparison of OHAM solution with HPM-Padé solution and the effect of increasing the order of its approximation, on the velocity profile for \(\beta = 1.\)
Comparison of OHAM with numerical solutions for \(\beta = 1.\)
Conclusions
In this study, a new analytical technique is proposed to get a solution of Falkner–Skan equation. The method gives a desired analytical solution of the 2D laminar, incompressible viscous fluid flow over a semi-infinite wedge. The validation of this study with numerical and Bararnia et al. (2012), as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, show the excellence and capability of OHAM towards handling both linear and nonlinear problems. However, an excellent agreement between those methods has achieved, because the values we obtained for \(f^{\prime \prime } \left( 0 \right) = 1.23140046\) at \(\beta = 1\), agreed with \(f^{\prime \prime } \left( 0 \right) = 1.23150\) (Bararnia et al. 2012) and \(f^{\prime \prime } \left( 0 \right) = 1.2325\) (Rajagopal et al. 1983) all at \(\beta = 1\). Despite the fact that only first-order approximation been generated.
Declarations
Authors’ contributions
All authors have contributed to the development of this study equally. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Acknowledgements
The author would like to acknowledge the financial aid received from Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia the Grant GIPS/2014/UTHM/U191 and U136.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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