UDC 536.25 

R. C. Chaudhary and Arpita Jain

INFLUENCE OF PERIODIC TEMPERATURE ON TRANSIENT
NATURAL CONVECTION FLOW OF AN ELASTICO-VISCOUS FLUID
PAST A UNIFORMLY ACCELERATED PLATE

An investigation of free convection flow of an elastico-viscous 
fluid past a uniformly accelerated plate with periodic temperature 
variation has been carried out. The solutions in a closed form have 
been derived for temperature, velocity, penetration distance, rate 
of heat transfer, and skin friction by the Laplace transform technique. 
A parametric study of all involved parameters is conducted and representative 
results are illustrated.

Department of Mathematics, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur-302004, 
India; email: rcchaudhary@rediffmail.com. Original article submitted 
April 18, 2007; revision submitted September 15, 2008.