MOMENTUM AND HEAT-TRANSFER ON A CONTINUOUS MOVING SURFACE IN A POWER-LAW FLUID

This analysis examines the momentum and heat transfer occurring in the laminar boundary layer on a continuously moving and stretching two-di mensional surface in a non-Newtonian power law fluid. The Merk-Chao se ries expansion is used to generate ordinary differential equations fro m the partial differential momentum equation in order to obtain univer sal velocity functions. For the problem of combined momentum and heat transfer in the boundary layer of the moving sheet, a general power se ries is used to describe the fluid's velocity and temperature. Example s for a non-linear surface velocity and a linearly stretching surface velocity are provided. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.