A new branch of the temperature distribution of boundary-layer flows over an impermeable stretching plate

Abstract

In 2005 it was reported that the boundary-layer flows over an impermeable stretching plate have a new branch of solutions. In this short communication, the corresponding heat transfer problem is considered, and a new branch of temperature distribution is obtained. It is found that the new branch of temperature distributions is mostly rather close to the known branch of solutions, except in case of small Prandtl number. Thus, it is practically rather hard to distinguish the two branches of temperature distributions.