Lie Symmetry Group for Unsteady Free Convection Boundary-Layer Flow over a Vertical Surface

Abstract

The Lie symmetry group transformation method was used to investigate the partial differential equations that model the motion of a natural convective unsteady flow past to a non-isothermal vertical flat surface. The one-parameter Lie group transformation was applied twice consecutively to convert the motion governing equations into a system of ordinary differential equations. The obtained system of ordinary differential equations was solved numerically using the Lobatto IIIA formula (implicit Runge–Kutta method). The effect of the Prandtl number on the temperature and velocity profiles is illustrated graphically.