WSEAS Transactions on Fluid Mechanics
Print ISSN: 1790-5087, E-ISSN: 2224-347X
Volume 8, 2013
Analysis of Laminar Boundary Layer Flow along a Stretching Cylinder in the Presence of Thermal Radiation
Authors: , ,
Abstract: An analysis has been carried out to obtain the effects of thermal radiation on axi-symmetric laminar boundary layer flow of a viscous incompressible fluid along a stretching cylinder. Rosseland approximation has been use to model the radiative heat transfer. Using the similarity transformation, the partial differential equations corresponding to the momentum and heat equations have been transformed to a set of non-linear ordinary differential equations. These equations have been solved numerically using Runge-Kutta Fehlberg method with shooting technique. In the present reported work, the effects of radiation parameter, curvature parameter, Prandtl number and temperature exponent parameter on flow and heat transfer characteristics have been discussed. Variations of these parameters have been graphically presented. The reported results have been found to be in good agreement with the available published work in the literature.