Viscous flow and heat transfer over a nonlinearly stretching sheet

This paper presents a numerical analysis for flow and heat transfer in a viscous fluid over a nonlinear stretching sheet by employing a novel numerical procedure and two cases are studied, namely, (i) the sheet with constant surface temperature (CST case) and (ii) the sheet with prescribed surface temperature (PST case). The governing partial differential equations are converted into highly nonlinear ordinary differential equations by a similarity transformation. The variations of dimensionless surface temperature, dimensionless surface temperature gradient as well as flow and heat transfer characteristics with the governing parameters are graphed and tabulated.

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