A study of heat and mass transfer flow of a variable viscosity couple stress fluid between inclined plates

Abstract

In this paper, the Poiseuille flow of non-isothermal couple stress fluid of Reynolds model between two heated parallel inclined plates has been studied. The strongly nonlinear coupled ordinary differential equations have been investigated using the Asymptotic Homotopy Perturbation method (AHPM) and the Optimal Homotopy Asymptotic Method with DJ Polynomials (OHAM-DJ). Employing both these techniques, the approximate solutions for velocity profile, temperature distributions, shear stress, average velocity and volumetric flow rate have been achieved. The results obtained using both these methods are in the form of infinite series, hence the results can be obtained easily. Comparison of various results, obtained through these methods, is carried out. Here, it is worth to mention that the results gained by both these approaches are in excellent resemblance. The effect of different parameters on the flow problem has been studied numerically as well as presented graphically.