Heat transfer over an unsteady stretching surface with prescribed heat flux

Abstract

The unsteady laminar boundary-layer flow over a continuously stretching surface in a viscous and incompressible quiescent fluid is studied. The unsteadiness in the flow and temperature fields is caused by the time dependence of the stretching velocity and the surface heat flux. The nonlinear partial differential equations of continuity, momentum, and energy, with three independent variables, are reduced to nonlinear ordinary differential equations, before they are solved numerically by the Keller-box method. Comparison with available data from the open literature as well as the exact solution for the steady-state case of the present problem is made, and found to be in good agreement. Effects of the unsteadiness parameter and Prandtl number on the flow and heat transfer characteristics are thoroughly examined.PACS No.: 47.15.Cb