Research Article

Nonlinear Nanofluid Flow over Heated Vertical Surface with Sinusoidal Wall Temperature Variations

Table 1

Comparisons of wall skin-friction coefficient and local Nusselt number with those of Rees [26] for various values of Prandtl number Pr with ,  ,  ,  and .

PrRees [26]Present results

0.50 1.0086 0.3120 1.00855006 0.31195217
0.70 0.9601 0.3532 0.96012412 0.35320776
1.00 0.9082 0.4010 0.90819121 0.40103314
1.50 0.8492 0.4607 0.84923678 0.46070468
2.00 0.8079 0.5066 0.80788807 0.50661849
3.00 0.7508 0.5767 0.75076470 0.57667739
4.00 0.7113 0.6304 0.71128220 0.63042597
5.00 0.6814 0.6746 0.68135380 0.67458252
6.00 0.6574 0.7123 0.65739280 0.71234690
7.00 0.6375 0.7455 0.63749977 0.74551232
8.00 0.6206 0.7752 0.62054992 0.77519223
10.00 0.5928 0.8268 0.59283303 0.82684396
20.00 0.5119 1.0052 0.51189002 1.00519108
40.00 0.4392 1.2146 0.43918933 1.21460776
70.00 0.3866 1.4104 0.38663181 1.41042858
100.00 0.3559 1.5495 0.35594693 1.54953322