Flow and heat transfer in a viscoelastic fluid over a stretching sheet

Abstract The paper discusses the flow of an incompressible second-order fluid due to stretching of a plane elastic surface in the approximation of boundary layer theory. An exact analytical solution of the non-linear equation governing the self-similar flow is given. The skin friction decreases with increase in the elastic parameter k1. The analysis of heat transfer in this flow reveals that when the wall and the ambient temperature are held constant, temperature at a point increases with increase in k1, for fixed Prandtl number σ.