Laguerre collocation method for the flow and heat transfer due to a permeable stretching surface embedded in a porous medium with a second order slip and viscous dissipation

A numerical method is given for studying the effect of viscous dissipation on the steady flow with heat transfer of Newtonian fluid towards a permeable stretching surface embedded in a porous medium with a second order slip. The governing nonlinear partial differential equations are converted into nonlinear ordinary differential equations by using similarity variables. The proposed method is based on replacement of the unknown function by truncated series of well-known Laguerre expansion of functions. An approximate formula of the derivative is introduced. Special attention is given to study the convergence analysis and derive an upper bound of the error of the presented approximate formula. The introduced method converts the proposed equation by means of collocation points to a system of algebraic equations with Laguerre coefficients. Thus, by solving this system of equations, the Laguerre coefficients are obtained. Graphically results are shown for non-dimensional velocities and temperature. The effects of the porous parameter, the suction (injection) parameter, Eckert number, first and second order velocity slip parameter and the Prandtl number on the flow and temperature profiles are presented. Moreover, the local skin-friction and Nusselt numbers are presented. A comparison of numerical results is made with the earlier published results under limiting cases. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.