Laminar flow and heat transfer in the boundary-layer of non-Newtonian fluids over a stretching flat sheet

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1425-1431

  Xu, Hang ^a   Liao, Shi Jun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Analytical approximations; Boundary layer flow; Heat and mass transfer; Non Newtonian fluids; Power law; Similarity solutions

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; LAMINAR FLOW; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MASS TRANSFER; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RHEOLOGY; VELOCITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATIONS; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; POWER-LAW; SIMILARITY SOLUTIONS;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW;

EID: 63049085422     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2009.01.029     Document Type: Article

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