Effects of viscous dissipation and radiation on the thermal boundary layer over a nonlinearly stretching sheet |
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Authors: | Rafael Cortell |
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Institution: | Departamento de Física Aplicada, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 46071 Valencia, Spain |
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Abstract: | This Letter endeavours to complete an earlier numerical analysis for flow and heat transfer in a viscous fluid over a sheet nonlinearly stretched by extending the investigation in two directions. On one side, the effects of thermal radiation are included in the energy equation, and, on the other hand, the prescribed wall heat flux case (PHF case) is also analyzed. The governing partial differential equations are converted into nonlinear ordinary differential equations by a similarity transformation. The variations of dimensionless surface temperature as well as flow and heat-transfer characteristics with the governing dimensionless parameters of the problem, which include a nonlinearly stretching sheet, thermal radiation, viscous dissipation and power-law index of the wall temperature parameters, are graphed and tabulated. |
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Keywords: | Laminar boundary layers Nonlinearly stretching surfaces Viscous dissipation Thermal radiation |
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