Chemical Engineering Communications, Vol.194, No.4, 553-564, 2007
On the effectiveness of uniform suction or injection on two-dimensional stagnation-point flow towards a stretching surface with heat generation
An analysis is made of the steady laminar flow of an incompressible viscous fluid impinging on a permeable stretching surface with heat generation. A uniform suction or injection is applied normal to the plate, which is maintained at a constant temperature. Numerical solution for the governing nonlinear momentum and energy equations is obtained. The effect of the uniform suction/injection velocity, the surface stretching velocity, and the heat generation/absorption coefficient on both the flow and heat transfer is presented and discussed.
Keywords:heat generation;numerical solution;stagnation point flow;stretching sheet;suction or injection