Flow and Heat Transfer of Casson Fluid due to Stretching Sheet with Convective Boundary Condition: An Analytical Solution

Abstract

In this Present paper an analytical solution is derived for a two dimensional boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a Casson fluid due to stretching sheet with convective boundary condition. Using closed form of analytical solution of the flow of non-Newtonian Casson fluid, the heat transfer equation is second order nonlinear differential equation with variable coefficients is solved analytically using confluent hypergeometrical series (Power Series) in terms of Kummer’s function. The effects of various governing parameters on flow, heat transfer and wall temperature gradient are plotted and discussed.

Keywords: Casson fluid; flow analysis; Heat Transfer; Biot number, Hated Plate, Nusselt number