International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 18 (1995), Issue 4, Pages 765-772
doi:10.1155/S0161171295000986

Heat transfer analysis of a second grade fluid over a stretching sheet

C. E. Maneschy1 and M. Massoudi2

1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 15261, PA, USA
2U.S.Department of Energy, Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center, Pittsburgh 15236, PA, USA

Received 15 November 1993; Revised 27 January 1994

Copyright © 1995 C. E. Maneschy and M. Massoudi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

The heat tranfer and flow of a non-Newtonian fluid past a stretching sheet is analyzed in this paper. Results in a non-dimensional form are presented here for the velocity and temperature profiles assuming different kind of boundary conditions.