Study of Flow and Heat Transfer on a Stretching Surface in a Rotating Casson Fluid

• DOI: 10.1007/s40010-015-0217-1
• Publication Date: 2015-07-13T08:52:45Z
• Authors: Adnan Saeed Butt; Asif Ali; Ahmer Mehmood
• Keywords: Film temperature; Shooting method; Churchill–Bernstein equation

The steady, boundary layer flow and heat transfer on a stretching surface in rotating fluid has been examined. Using suitable similarity transformations, the partial differential equations governing the flow and heat transfer phenomenon convert to a system of non-linear ordinary differential equations. The obtained equations are solved by using the shooting technique with fifth order Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg method. The parameters involving in the problem are Casson fluid parameter $$\beta $$ , non-dimensional parameter $$\lambda $$ that signifies the importance of rotation rate to stretching rate and Prandtl number $$Pr$$ . The effects of these parameters on physical quantities such as velocity and temperature profiles, skin frictions and Nusselt number are inspected with the aid of graphs and tables.