The study of flow of non Newtonian fluids has attracted the
attention of engineers and scientist in recent times due to its
important application in many engineering processes. The analysis
of such flows is very important in both theory and practice. From a
theoretical point of view, flows of this type are fundamental in fluid
mechanics and convective heat transfer. From a practical point of
view, these flows have applications in convection cooling processes
where a coolant is impinged on a continuously moving plate. Heat and
mass transfer of non-Newtonian fluids is also very important in many
engineering applications, such as oil recovery, food processing, paper
making and slurry transporting.
Abel et al. [1] examined the effects of viscous dissipation and nonuniform
heat source/sink on the boundary layer flow and heat transfer
characteristics of a second grade, non-Newtonian fluid through a
porous medium. Ahmad [2] carried out the mathematical analysis of
heat transfer effects on the axisymmetric flow of a second grade fluid
over a radially stretching sheet using the homotopy analysis method.
Ahmed [3] presented Lie group analysis and the basic similarity
reductions for the MHD aligned slowly flowing and heat transfer in
second grade fluid with neglecting the inertial terms.
Bikash [4] studied the numerical solution of the laminar flow and
heat transfer of an incompressible, third grade, electrically conducting
fluid impinging normal to a plane in the presence of a uniform
magnetic field. Cheng-Hsing and Kai-Long [5]studied the conjugate
heat transfer of a plate fin cooled or heated by high or low Prandtl
number, second grade viscoelastic fluid with conduction–convection
parameter