Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition) ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (4): 445-454.doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10483-012-1562-6

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Flow and heat transfer over hyperbolic stretching sheets

A. AHMAD1, S. ASGHAR1,2   

  1. 1. COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan;
    2. Department of Mathematics, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  • Received:2011-06-22 Revised:2011-11-24 Online:2012-04-15 Published:2012-04-15
  • Contact: A. AHMAD, Ph. D., E-mail: adeelahmed@comsats.edu.pk E-mail:adeelahmed@comsats.edu.pk
  • Supported by:

    Project supported by the CIIT Research Grant Program of COMSATS Institute of Information Technology of Pakistan (No. 16-69/CRGP/CIIT/IBD/10/711)

Abstract: The boundary layer flow and heat transfer analysis of an incompressible viscous fluid for a hyperbolically stretching sheet is presented. The analytical and numerical results are obtained by a series expansion method and a local non-similarity (LNS) method, respectively. The analytical and numerical results for the skin friction and the Nusselt number are calculated and compared with each other. The significant observation is that the momentum and the thermal boundary layer thickness decrease as the distance from the leading edge increases. The well-known solution of linear stretching is found as the leading order solution for the hyperbolic stretching.

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