Free convection of power-law fluids from a vertical plate with variable surface heat flux. (English) Zbl 1020.76049
Summary: We investigate steady free convection laminar boundary-layer flow along a heated vertical plate immersed in a quiescent power-law fluid. Heat flux on the plate surface is assumed to have a power-law variation. Similarity solutions are obtained numerically for boundary-layer velocity and temperature profiles. The effects of flow index and generalized Prandtl number on the surface shear stress and temperature are determined.
MSC:
76R10 | Free convection |
76A05 | Non-Newtonian fluids |
76M55 | Dimensional analysis and similarity applied to problems in fluid mechanics |
80A20 | Heat and mass transfer, heat flow (MSC2010) |