Heat transfer characteristics of a continuous stretching surface

The similarity solutions for the governing ordinary differential equations of the boundary layer corresponding to a stretching surface have been reported. Power law velocity and temperature distribution were assumed for velocity exponent 3≥m≥-0.41176, -1.1≥m≥-3, and for temperature exponent 3≥n≥-3. Solutions have been found for n=0 and all m where heat transferred from the stretching surface to the ambient. The direction and amount of heat flow were found to be dependent on the magnitude of n and m for the same Prandtl number. Nusselt number increases with increasing m and Pr for uniform and variable surface temperature however, for uniform surface heat flux it decreases with increasing m for constant Pr. © 1994 Springer-Verlag.