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ISRN Applied Mathematics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 430432, 13 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/430432
Unsteady Reversed Stagnation-Point Flow over a Flat Plate
Department of Electromechanical Engineering, University of Macau, Taipa 999078, Macau
Received 6 March 2012; Accepted 30 April 2012
Academic Editors: I. Hashim, G. Liu, and P. Weidman
Copyright © 2012 Vai Kuong Sin and Chon Kit Chio. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This paper investigates the nature of the development of two-dimensional laminar flow of an incompressible fluid at the reversed stagnation-point. Proudman and Johnson (1962) first studied the flow and obtained an asymptotic solution by neglecting the viscous terms. Robins and Howarth (1972) stated that this is not true in neglecting the viscous terms within the total flow field. Viscous terms in this analysis are now included, and a similarity solution of two-dimensional reversed stagnation-point flow is investigated by solving the full Navier-Stokes equations.