Heat transfer in a second-order fluid for flow around a circular cylinder

The temperature distribution within the thermal boundary layer region due to the flow of an incompressible second-order fluid around a heated circular cylinder, maintained at a constant temperature higher than that of the fluid at infinity, has been obtained near the forward stagnation point by series expansion. The graph of the Nusselt number Nu for the Prandtl number P = 25 and the Eckert number E = 0.1 indicates that the non-Newtonian effect is to increase the heat flux from the cylinder to the liquid in the region 0° ? θ ? 15.7° and to decrease it in the region 15.7° < θ ? 0₀ where θ is the angular distance on the cylinder measured from the forward stagnation point. The critical point θ₀ at which Nu = 0, that is, where the effect of the frictional heating balances the effect of the temperature difference and there is no heat flux either from the cylinder or from the liquid, shifts towards the forward stagnation point with the increase of non-Newtonian effects.