Computational treatment of free convection effect on flow of elastico-viscous fluid past an accelerated plate with constant heat flux

Abstract

Effect of free convection on the visco-elastic fluid (Walter - B' type) flow past an infinite vertical plate accelerating in its own plane with constant heat flux is examined analytically. It is found that for given values of Grashof number, Prandtl number and Newtonian parameter; flow velocity at any point increases with the increase in time and non-Newtonian parameter, however, it decreases with both, the heating and cooling of the plate. © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.