Heat Transfer in the Plane Couette Flow of a Non‐Newtonian Fluid with Uniform Suction at the Stationary Wall

The paper deals with the discussion of heat transfer phenomenon in the steady flow of a Rivlin‐Ericksen Fluid confined between two plane parallel walls, one of which moves with a constant velocity while the other is held at the rest with a uniform suction applied on it. The solution of the energy equation is provided for the case in which both the walls are maintained at constant temperature, treating the suction parameter to be small. In the presence of suction the temperature distribution for the fluid under consideration differs from that for a classical viscous fluid only when the product of Prandtl and Eckert numbers is non‐zero. The presence of visco‐elasticity results in increasing the temperature in comparison to that for a Newtonian fluid. However, it also increases as the suction parameter increases. Many other interesting results are reported.