NRF Rated Researchers

Research Profile

Stanford Shateyi

Dr Stanford Shateyi obtained his Bsc Honours (1997) degree in Applied Mathematics from the National University of Science and Technology (Zimbabwe). In 1999,  Dr Shateyi received a NUFU scholarship to do a Masters degree at the University of Zimbabwe. He then graduated with a Master of Science degree in 2001, specialized in fluid flows over compliant surfaces. His Masters  thesis was published in Australian & New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Journal in 2002. In 2008 he graduated with PhD degree from the University of Zimbabwe. His PhD focused on natural convection in boundary layer flows in the presence of a chemical reaction. He managed to publish five papers in peer-reviewed journals from his PhD thesis.

Dr Shateyi’s research area of interest is Fluid Mechanics and Numerical Analysis. He has been involved in research on topics such as magneto hydrodynamics, steady and unsteady flows, stretching and shrinking surfaces, among others. He has analyzed the effects of different significant parameters affecting fluid flows in both Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluids, both Darcy and Non-Darcy flows. Dr Shateyi is a member of a research group in Fluid Mechanics which is involved in developing new analytical and numerical techniques. This research group has even managed to improve well known analytical techniques such as the well celebrated Homotopy analysis method. This research group has managed to breed methods like Spectral analysis and Homotopy analysis together to produce more accurate results.

Dr Shateyi has so far published eighteen papers in peer-reviewed journals and two book chapters and has four articles in press. Dr Shateyi has mentored more than twenty post graduate students both in Zimbabwe and at the University of Venda. Currently he is supervising masters students both based at the University of Venda.  He also serves as a reviewer for several international journals such as Acta Physica Polonica A, South African Journal of Science, Advanced Research in Applied Mathematics, Journal of Chemical Engineering and others.

Dr Shateyi has recently obtained a Y2 Rating from NRF. A researcher in this group is recognized  by all or the overriding majority of reviewers as having the potential to establish him/herself as a researcher (demonstrated by recent research products).

Dr Shateyi is currently working on a number of research problems in Computational Fluid Dynamics and have more than ten articles under review in different peer-reviewed journals and is also working on a proposal for a PhD student.

Peer Reviewed Publications

 2010

1. S. Shateyi, and S. S Motsa, Boundary layer flow and double diffusion over an unsteady stretching surface with Hall effect,  Chemical Engineering Communications, (In Press)
2. S.S Motsa, P. Sibanda, G. Marewo and S. Shateyi,  A note on improved   in homotopy analysis method for solving the Jeffery-Hamel flow, Mathematical  Problems in Engineering, (In Press)
3. S.S Motsa, and S. Shateyi , A new approach for the solution of three- dimensional magnetohydrodynamic rotating flow over a shrinking sheet,  Mathematical  Problems in  Engineering, (In Press)
4. S. Shateyi, and S. S Motsa, Hydromagnetic non-Darcy flow, heat and mass transfer over a stretching sheet in the presence of thermal radiation and Ohmic dissipation,   The Canadian  Journal of Chemical Engineering, (In Press)
5. S. S Motsa, S Shateyi and Z Makukula ,   Homotopy analysis of free convection boundary layer flow with heat and mass transfer,  Chemical Engineering Communications, (In Press)
6. S. Shateyi  and S. S. Motsa, “Variable Viscosity on Magnetohydrodynamic Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer over an Unsteady  Stretching Surface with Hall Effect”.  Volume 2010, Article ID 257568, 20 pages doi:10.1155/2010/257568,   Boundary Value Problems. S.S. Motsa, P. Sibanda, F.G. Awad, S. Shateyi, “ A new spectral-homotopy analysis method for the MHD Jeffery-Hamel problem,” Computers and Fluids,15 (2010) ,2293–  2302.
7. S. Shateyi, S.S Motsa and Sibanda, “The effects of thermal radiation, Hall currents, Soret and Dufour on MHD flow by mixed convection over a vertical surface in porous media,” Volume 2010, Article ID 627475, 20 pages, Journal of  Mathematical Problems in Engineering. S.S Motsa, and S. Shateyi “Analytical solution of nonlinear Batch  reaction kinetics equations,”  ANIZIAM J, 51, E, E37-E56, 2010.
8. S.S Motsa,  S. Shateyi and P. Sibanda, “A model of steady viscous flow of a micropolar fluid driven by injection or suction between a porous disk and a non-porous disk using a novel numerical technique  Published Online: Aug 4 2010   5:15PM  DOI: 10.1002/cjce.20366 Canadian   Journal   of  Chemical Engineering
9. S.S Motsa,  S. Shateyi and P. Sibanda, “Homotopy  analysis of heat and mass  transfer  boundary layer flow through a non-porous channel with chemical reaction and heat generation,” Published Online: Aug 2010 DOI: 10.1002/cjce.20368 Canadian   Journal   of Chemical Engineering.
10. S.S Motsa, P. Sibanda and S. Shateyi, “A new spectral-homotopy analysis method for solving a nonlinear second order BVP, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Volume 15, (2010), 2293-2302.
11. S. S Motsa and S. Shateyi  Approximate Series Solution of Natural Convection Flow in the presence of radiation, Journal of Advanced  Research in Applied Mathematics,  2010, Volume 2, Issue1,  pp 17-29.

2009

1. S. Shateyi and S. S Motsa  “Thermal radiation effects on heat and mass transfer over an unsteady stretching surface,” Volume 2009, : Mathematical Problems in  Engineering.         doi.10.1155/2009/965603.
2. S. Shateyi,  P. Sibanda and S S. Motsa, “Convection from a stretching surface with suction and power-law variation in species” Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 45, Number8/June 2009.

2008

1. S. Shateyi, “Thermal radiation and buoyancy effects on heat and mass transfer over a semi-infinite stretching surface with suction and blowing”, Journal of Applied Mathematics  Volume 2008, doi.10.1155/2008/ 414830.
2. S Shateyi, P. Sibanda and S S. Motsa, “On the asymptotic approach to thermosolutal convection in heated slow reactive boundary layer  flows”, Journal of Applied Mathematics, Volume 2008, doi.10.1155/2008/835380.
3. S Shateyi, P. Sibanda and S S. Motsa, “Inviscid instability analysis of a reactive boundary-layer flow,” JP Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Vol. 2 No. 2   pp 117 – 133, 2008

2007-2002

1. S Shateyi, P. Sibanda and S S. Motsa, “Magnetohydrodynamic flow past a vertical plate with radiative heat transfer”. Journal of Heat transfer,  Volume 129, pp 1708 – 1713, 2007.
2. S Shateyi, P. Sibanda and S S. Motsa, “An asymptotic analysis of  convection in boundary layer flow in the presence of a chemical reaction,” Archives of Mechanics. Volume 57, Issue 1, pp 25-41, 2005.
3. S S. Motsa, P. Sibanda and S Shateyi, “Linear stability of two dimensional flow subject to three dimensional perturbations in a channel with a flexible wall. Archives of Mechanics,” Volume 56, Issue 4, pp 293-311, 2004.
4. S  Shateyi, P. Sibanda and S S. Motsa, “Three dimensional stability of heated or cooled accelerating boundary layer flows over a compliant boundary ANZIAM J.  44(E)    PPE55-E81, 2002