Heat transfer in a viscoelastic boundary layer flow over a stretching sheet

Abstract

Viscoelastic boundary layer flow over a stretching sheet with power-law surface temperature including frictional heating and internal heat generation or absorption is studied. The non-similar boundary layer equations are solved to obtain the important physical quantities such as the skin friction coefficient and heat transfer coefficient. It is found that the magnitude of the surface velocity gradient increases and the surface temperature gradient decreases with the non-Newtonian parameter for the case in which the difference between the source temperature and that of the ambient fluid remains constant.