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In the present study, MHD boundary layer flow with heat and mass transfer of a nanofluid with viscous dissipation over a non-linear stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium is studied. The governing non-linear partial differential…
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We introduce a new method of solution for the convective heat transfer under forced laminar flow that is confined by two parallel plates with a distance of 2a or by a circular tube with a radius of a. The advection-conduction equation is…
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