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Flow and heat transfer in a Newtonian nanoliquid due to a curved stretching sheet

Flow of a Newtonian nanoliquid due to a curved stretching sheet and heat transfer in it is studied. The governing non-linear partial differential equations are reduced to non- linear ordinary differential equations with variable coefficients by using a similarity transformation. The flow characteristics are studied using plots of flow velocity components and the skin-friction coefficient as a function of suction-injection parameter, curvature and volume fraction. Prescribed surface temperature and prescribed surface heat flux are considered for studying the temperature distribution in the flow. The thermophysical properties of twenty nanoliquids are considered in the investigation by modelling them through the use of phenomenological laws and mixture theory. The results of the corresponding problem involving a plane stretching sheet is obtained as a particular case of those obtained in the present paper. Skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number are evaluated and it is observed that skin friction coefficient decreases with concentration of nanoparticles in the absence as well as presence of suction where as Nusselt number increases with increase in concentration of nanoparticles in a dilute range.

Curved stretching sheet ; Shooting method ; Heat transfer ; Nanoliquids

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