EFFECT OF VARIABLE VISCOSITY AND SUCTION/INJECTION ON THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER OF A NON-NEWTONIAN POWER-LAW FLUIDS PAST A POWER-LAW STRETCHED SURFACE

Abstract

The analysis of laminar boundary layer flow and heat transfer of non-Newtonian fluids over a continuous stretched surface with suction or injection has been presented.The velocity and temperature of the sheet were assumed to vary in a power-law form, that is u = U0xm, and Tw(x) = T+ Cxb. The viscosity of the fluid is assumed to be inverse linear function of temperature. The resulting governing boundary-layer equations are highly non-linear and coupled form of partial differential equations and they have been solved numerically by using the Runge-Kutta method and Shooting technique. Velocity and temperature distributions as well as the Nusselt number where studied for two thermal boundary conditions: uniform surface temperature (b = 0) and cooled surface temperature (b = -1), for different parameters: variable viscosity parameter qr, temperature exponent b, blowing parameter d and Prandtl number. The obtained results show that the flow and heat transfer characteristics are significantly influenced by these parameters.

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Dates

  • Submission Date2009-07-13
  • Revision Date2009-07-24
  • Acceptance Date2009-11-19

DOI Reference

10.2298/TSCI10041111S

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