Heat transfer in a power-law fluid film over a unsteady stretching sheet |
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Authors: | Chien-Hsin Chen |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Mechanical Design Engineering, National Huwei Institute of Technology, Huwei, Yunlin, 632 Taiwan, |
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Abstract: | In this paper the problem of momentum and heat transfer in a thin liquid film of power-law fluid on an unsteady stretching surface has been studied. Numerical solutions are obtained for some representative values of the unsteadiness parameter S and the power-law index n for a wide range of the generalized Prandtl number, 0.001 ≤ Pr ≤ 1000. Typical temperature and velocity profiles, the dimensionless film thickness, free-surface temperature, and the surface heat fluxes are presented at selected controlling parameters. The results show that increasing the value of n tends to increase the boundary-layer thickness and broadens the temperature distributions. The free-surface temperature of a shear thinning fluid is larger than that of a Newtonian fluid, but the opposite trend is true for a shear thickening fluid. For small generalized Prandtl numbers, the surface heat flux increases with a decrease in n, but the impacts of n on the heat transfer diminish for Pr greater than a moderate value (approximately 1 ≤ Pr ≤ 10, depending on the magnitude of S). |
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Keywords: | Stretching Surfaces Liquid Film Power-Law Fluid |
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