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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2009, Article ID 232670, 15 pages doi:10.1155/2009/232670 Research Article Convection-Radiation Heat Transfer in a Nonlinear Fluid with Temperature-Dependent Viscosity Mehrdad Massoudi,1 Phuoc X. Tran,1 and R. Wulandana2 1 U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), P.O. Box 10940, Pittsburgh, PA 15236, USA 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Mehrdad Massoudi, mehrdad.massoudi@ Received 25 February 2009; Accepted 7 June 2009 Recommended by Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal We will study the fully developed flow of a generalized second-grade fluid down an inclined plane. The viscosity is not only a function of the shear rate shear-thinning or shear-thickening but also depends on the temperature in an exponential way. The effects of radiation boundary condition at the free surface are considered. The boundary value problem is solved numerically, and the velocity and temperature profiles are obtained for various dimensionless numbers. Copyright q 2009 Mehrdad Massoudi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction Combined heat transfer processes, such as convection-radiation, play a significant role in many chemical processes involving combustion, drying, fluidization, MHD flows, and so forth see 1, 2. In general, the radiative process either occurs at the boundaries or as a term in the energy equation. The latter case is usu