TY - JOUR TI - Melting heat transfer in the stagnation-point flow of third grade fluid past a stretching sheet with viscous dissipation AU - Hayat Tasawar AU - Iqbal Z AU - Mustafa M AU - Hendi Awatif A JN - Thermal Science PY - 2013 VL - 17 IS - 3 SP - 865 EP - 875 PT - Article AB - An analysis has been carried out for the characteristics of melting heat transfer in the boundary layer flow of third grade fluid in a region of stagnation point past a stretching sheet. The relevant partial differential equations are reduced into ordinary differential system by suitable transformations. The series solutions are developed by homotopy analysis method (HAM). It is revealed that an increase in the melting parameter (M ) decreases the velocity and the temperature (θ ). An increase in the third grade parameter (φ ) increases the velocity and the boundary layer thickness. The present results are also compared with the previous studies.