Title

Unsteady Boundary Layers: Convective Heat Transfer Over A Vertical Flat Plate

Keywords

Analytical solution; Coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations; Numerical solution; Similarity solution; Unsteady boundary layers

Abstract

In this paper, we extend the results in the literature for boundary layer flow over a horizontal plate, by considering the buoyancy force term in the momentum equation. Using a similarity transformation, we transform the partial differential equations of the problem into coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations. We first analyse several special cases dealing with the properties of the exact and approximate solutions. Then, for the general problem, we construct series solutions for arbitrary values of the physical parameters. Furthermore, we obtain numerical solutions for several sets of values of the parameters. The numerical results thus obtained are presented through graphs and tables and the effects of the physical parameters on the flow and heat transfer characteristics are discussed. The results obtained reveal many interesting behaviours that warrant further study of the equations related to non-Newtonian fluid phenomena, especially the shear-thinning phenomena. Shear thinning reduces the wall shear stress. © 2009 Australian Mathematical Society.

Publication Date

4-1-2009

Publication Title

ANZIAM Journal

Volume

50

Issue

4

Number of Pages

541-549

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1446181109000297

Socpus ID

77952336114 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/77952336114

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