TY - JOUR
TI - Analysis of Marangoni convection of non-Newtonian power law fluids with linear temperature distribution
AU - Zhang Yan
AU - Zheng Liancun
AU - Wang Xiaojing
AU - Song Guhua
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2011
VL - 15
IS - 11
SP - 45
EP - 52
PT - Article
AB - The problem of steady, laminar, thermal Marangoni convection flow of  non-Newtonian power law fluid along a horizontal surface with variable  surface temperature is studied. The partial differential equations are  transformed into ordinary differential equations by using a suitable  similarity transformation and analytical approximate solutions are obtained  by an efficient transformation, asymptotic expansion and Padé approximants  technique. The effects of power law index and Marangoni number on velocity  and temperature profiles are examined and discussed.