Research Article

The Flow and Heat Transfer of a Nanofluid Past a Stretching/Shrinking Sheet with a Convective Boundary Condition

Table 2

(a) Variation of the local Nusselt number with Nb and Nt and (b) variation of the local Sherwood number with Nb and Nt for γ = 0.1, Le = 2, and Pr = 6.8.
(a)

Nb = 0.1Nb = 0.2Nb = 0.3Nb = 0.4Nb = 0.5
Nt Nt Nt Nt Nt

0.10.0991400.10.0989730.10.0987520.10.0984530.10.098043
0.20.0991390.20.0989720.20.0987500.20.0984510.20.098039
0.30.0991380.30.0989710.30.0987490.30.0984480.30.098035
0.40.0991370.40.0989700.40.0987470.40.0984460.40.098031
0.50.0991360.50.0989690.50.0987460.50.0984430.50.098026

(b)

Nb = 0.1Nb = 0.2Nb = 0.3Nb = 0.4Nb = 0.5
Nt Nt Nt Nt Nt

0.13.8666970.13.9164540.13.9330540.13.9413690.13.946375
0.23.7673070.23.8668210.23.9000210.23.9166500.23.926663
0.33.6679170.33.8171890.33.8669880.33.8919330.33.906953
0.43.5685290.43.7675570.43.8339560.43.8672170.43.887244
0.53.4691410.53.7179260.53.8009250.53.8425010.53.867536