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An incompressible flow in a porous channel with expanding or contacting walls in the presence of a transverse magnetic field is considered. Using similarity transformations, the governing equations are reduced to the nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The exact similar solutions for the different cases of the expansion ratio and the Hartmann number are obtained with a singular perturbation method, and the associated behavior is discussed in detail.
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Si, Xh., Zheng, Lc., Zhang, Xx. et al. Perturbation solution to unsteady flow in a porous channel with expanding or contracting walls in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. Appl. Math. Mech.-Engl. Ed. 31, 151–158 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10483-010-0203-z
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