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Flow and heat transfer in a viscoelastic fluid over a stretching sheet. (English) Zbl 0693.76015

Summary: 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 nonlinear equation governing the self-similar flow is given. The skin friction decreases with increase in the elastic parameter \(k_ 1\). 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 \(k_ 1\) for fixed Prandtl number \(\sigma\).

MSC:

76A10 Viscoelastic fluids
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