Numerical solution of the Falkner Skan Equation by using shooting techniques

Analytic Approximate Solution for Falkner-Skan Equation

This paper deals with the Falkner-Skan nonlinear differential equation. An analytic approximate technique, namely, optimal homotopy asymptotic method (OHAM), is employed to propose a procedure to solve a boundary-layer problem. Our method does not depend upon small parameters and provides us with a convenient way to optimally control the convergence of the approximate solutions. The obtained re...

Numerical Solution of the Falkner-Skan Equation with Stretching Boundary by Collocation Method

In the present paper, a solution for the boundary value problem over a semi-infinite interval has been obtained by transforming the two-dimensional laminar boundary equations into a nonlinear ordinary equation using similarity variables. Moreover, a collocation method is proposed to solve the Falkner-Skan equation. This method is based on rational Legendre functions and convert the Falkner-Skan...

Numerical Solution for the Falkner-skan Equation Using Chebyshev Cardinal Functions

A numerical technique is presented for the solution of Falkner-Skan equation. The nonlinear ordinary differential equation is solved using Chebyshev cardinal functions. The method have been derived by first truncating the semi-infinite physical domain of the problem to a finite domain and expanding the required approximate solution as the elements of Chebyshev cardinal functions. Using the oper...

Falskan: a Graphical User Interface for the Numerical Solution of the Falkner-skan Equation

A numerical solution of Falkner-Skan equation via a shifted Chebyshev collocation method

The Falkner-Skan equation is a nonlinear third-order boundary value problem defined on the semi-infinite interval [0,∞). This equation plays an important role to illustrate the main physical features of boundary layer phenomena. This paper presents a new collocation method for solving the Falkner-Skan equation. The proposed approach is equipped by the orthogonal Chebyshev polynomials that have ...