Viscous flow over a nonlinearly stretching sheet

    Authors

    K. Vajravelu

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Appl. Math. Comput.

    Keywords

    viscous flow; stretching sheet; nonlinear system; analytical solution; numerical solution; HEAT-TRANSFER; VISCOELASTIC FLUID; SUCTION; PAST; Mathematics, Applied

    Abstract

    An analysis is carried out to study the flow and heat transfer characteristics in a viscous fluid over a nonlinearly stretching sheet. The equations of conservation of momentum, mass, and energy, which govern the flow and heat transfer, are partially decoupled using a similarity transformation which is different from that of the linearly stretching sheet problem. (However, the results for the linearly stretching sheet problem can be obtained as a special case.) The basic nonlinear differential equation for the velocity field f and the differential equation with variable coefficient for the temperature field theta are solved numerically by using a fourth-order Runge-Kutta integration scheme. The numerical results thus obtained for the flow and heat transfer characteristics are presented by a table and graphs. Furthermore, it is shown that the heat flow is always from the stretching sheet to the fluid. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.

    Journal Title

    Applied Mathematics and Computation

    Volume

    124

    Issue/Number

    3

    Publication Date

    1-1-2001

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    281

    Last Page

    288

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000171548100001

    ISSN

    0096-3003

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