Engineering Transactions, 43, 3, pp. 487-491, 1995

Transient Free Convection Flow of an Elastico-Viscous Fluid Past an Infinite Vertical Plate

R. Deka
Department of Mathematics, Gauhati University, Guwahati
India

U.N. Das
Department of Mathematics, Gauhati University, Guwahati
India

V.M. Soundalgekar
Brindavan Society, Thane
India

A solution to the problem of an unsteady, non-isothermal flow of an elastico-viscous fluid in a half-space is presented. The flow is induced by a temperature jump on the limiting plane. The constitutive equations of Walters' liquid B' are used.

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