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Effect of thermal conductivity on heat transfer for a power-law non-Newtonian fluid over a continuous stretched surface with various injection parameters

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  • Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

Received date: 2009-10-08

  Revised date: 2010-05-18

  Online published: 2010-08-01

Abstract

The two-dimensional non-Newtonian steady flow on a power-law stretched surface with suction or injection is studied. Thermal conductivity is assumed to vary as a linear function of temperature. The transformed governing equations in the present study are solved numerically using the Runge-Kutta method. Through a comparison, results for a special case of the problem show excellent agreement with those in a previous work. Two cases are considered, one corresponding to a cooled surface temperature and the other to a uniform surface temperature. Numerical results show that the thermal conductivity variation parameter, the injection parameter, and the power-law index have significant influences on the temperature profiles and the Nusselt number.

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F.A.SALAMA . Effect of thermal conductivity on heat transfer for a power-law non-Newtonian fluid over a continuous stretched surface with various injection parameters[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2010 , 31(8) : 963 -968 . DOI: 10.1007/s10483-010-1331-z

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