Free convection flow on a nonisothermal flat plate under nonuniform gravity

Abstract

In this paper, we present results obtained by using a numerical procedure for the free convection flow along a rotating nonisothermal plate subject to a nonuniform gravity field. Several specific forms for the temperature distributions of the plate are considered. For these instances the skin-friction and heat transfer rate on the wall at selected values of the distance from the leading edge and for some values of Prandtl numbers are presented. The method employed is shown to be very accurate in comparison with previous solutions.