Boundary layer flow and heat transfer adjacent to a stretching vertical sheet with prescribed surface heat flux

• Main Authors: Aman, Fazlina, Ishak, Anuar, Nazar, Roslinda
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 2010
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15560/1/Boundary%20layer%20flow%20and%20heat%20transfer%20adjacent%20to%20a%20stretching%20vertical%20sheet%20with%20prescribed%20surface%20heat%20flux.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15560/

The steady two-dimensional flow adjacent to a vertical, continuously stretching sheet in a viscous and incompressible fluid is studied. It is assumed that the sheet is stretched with a power-law velocity and is subjected to a variable surface heat flux. The governing partial differential equations are reduced to nonlinear ordinary differential equations by a similarity transformation, before being solved numerically by the Keller-box method. Results showed that the heat transfer rate at the surface increases as the velocity exponent parameter, mixed convection parameter and the Prandtl number are increased.