Electrohydrodynamic flow analysis in a circular cylindrical conduit using Least Square Method

Abstract In this article, Electrohydrodynamic flow (EHD flow) in a circular cylindrical conduit is studied by a semi-exact and high efficient weighted residual method called Least Square Method (LSM). A principle of LSM is briefly introduced and later is employed to solve the described problem. Furthermore, the effects of the Hartmann electric number (Ha) and the strength of nonlinearity (α) on velocity profiles are discussed and presented graphically. Results are compared with numerical solution and obtained residuals are compared with those of HAM which previously were done by Mastroberardino in Ref. [3]. Outcomes reveal that LSM has an excellent agreement with numerical solution; also depicted residual functions showed that LSM is more acceptable than HAM especially for large values of Ha and α numbers, also it is simpler and needs fewer computations.

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