HEAT-TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS OF A CONTINUOUS STRETCHING SURFACE

The similarity solutions for the governing ordinary differential equat ions of the boundary layer corresponding to a stretching surface have been reported. Power law velocity and temperature distribution were as sumed for velocity exponent 3 greater-than-or-equal-to m greater-than- or-equal-to - 0.41176, - 1.1 greater-than-or-equal-to m greater-than-o r-equal-to - 3, and for temperature exponent 3 greater-than-or-equal-t o n greater-than-or-equal-to - 3. Solutions have been found for n = 0 and all m where heat transferred from the stretching surface to the am bient. The direction and amount of heat flow were found to be dependen t on the magnitude of n and m for the same Prandtl number. Nusselt num ber increases with increasing m and Pr for uniform and variable surfac e temperature however, for uniform surface heat flux it decreases with increasing m for constant Pr.