Fluid flow and radiative nonlinear heat transfer over a stretching sheet

By Rafael Cortell. 2014

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Abstract In the present paper, we endeavor to perform a numerical analysis in connection with the boundary layer flow induced in a quiescent fluid by a continuous sheet stretching with velocity u w ( x ) ∼ x 1/3 with heat transfer. The effects of thermal radiation using the nonlinear Rosseland approximation are investigated. We search for similarity solutions and reduce the problem to a couple of ordinary differential equations containing three dimensionless parameters: the radiation parameter N R , the temperature ratio parameter θ w and the Prandtl number Pr. The computational results for velocity, temperature and heat transfer characteristics are presented in both graphical and tabular forms.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering

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