Chemical Engineering Communications, Vol.200, No.2, 253-268, 2013
Flow and Heat Transfer for Three-Dimensional Flow over an Exponentially Stretching Surface
This study analyzes the laminar boundary-layer flow and heat transfer characteristics of a steady, three-dimensional viscous fluid driven by a horizontal surface stretched exponentially in two lateral directions. The simulations in this study assume that the surface temperature is also distributed exponentially and reduce the governing equations to a set of ordinary differential equations using a similarity transformation. This study develops a numerical procedure that combines the Ackroyd method and Runge-Kutta integration scheme to solve the transformed equations. Results show that heat transfer characteristics depend strongly on the stretching ratio, temperature exponent, and Prandtl number.
Keywords:Boundary layer;Exponentially stretching surface;Heat transfer;Similarity solution;Three-dimensional flow