Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2013) 128: 114
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2013-13114-1

Regular Article

Newtonian heating in a flow of thixotropic fluid

¹ Department of Mathematics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, 43600, Attock, Pakistan
² Department of Mathematics, Quaid-i-Azam University, 44000, Islamabad, Pakistan
³ Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics (NAAM) Research Group, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, P. O. Box 80203, 21589, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

^* e-mail: awais_mm@yahoo.com

Received: 24 October 2012
Revised: 17 July 2013
Accepted: 10 September 2013
Published online: 15 October 2013

Abstract

The present research is concerned with the influence of Newtonian heating on the stagnation point flow near a stretching surface. Constitutive equations of thixotropic fluids are employed in the development of mathematical problem. The nonlinear problem is computed in series form. Besides this, the effects of embedded parameters of interest in the flow problem are analyzed. Numerical results for physical quantities are presented and examined in the tables.