Numerical analysis for forced convection over a flat plate in power law fluids

Abstract

The analysis of forced convective heat transfer of power-law non-Newtonian fluids from a flat plate is studied. The cases of prescribed surface temperature and prescribed wall heat flux are considered. The results of local heat transfer are obtained by using implicit finite difference scheme to solve the nonsimilarity solution. It was found that local similarity solution is given the low accuracy results for the study of boundary layer heat transfer of power-law fluids.