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JOURNAL OF THERMOPHYSICS AND HEAT TRANSFER Vol. 23, No. 3, July–September 2009 Three-Dimensional Stagnation Flow and Heat Transfer on a Flat Plate with Transpiration Ali Shokrgozar Abbassi∗ and Asghar Baradaran Rahimi† Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, 91775-1111 Mashhad, Iran DOI: 10.2514/1.41529 The existing solutions of Navier–Stokes and energy equations in the literature regarding the three-dimensional problem of stagnation-point flow, either on a flat plate or on a cylinder with or without transpiration, are only for the case of axisymmetric formulation. In this study, the nonaxisymmetric three-dimensional steady viscous stagnation- point flow and heat transfer in the vicinity of a flat plate are investigated when suction and blowing are also considered in the model. An external fluid, along z direction, with strain rate a impinges on this flat plate and produces a two-dimensional flow with different components of velocity on the plate. This external flow, as an example, can be generated in the form of multiple jet streams in a row in which the jets are in equal distances from each other along the x axis. A similarity solution of the Navier–Stokes equations and energy equation is presented in this problem. A reduction of these equations is obtained by use of appropriate similarity transformations. Velocity profiles and surface stress tensors and temperature profiles along with pressure profiles are presented for different values of velocity ratios and Prandtl number for sample cases of transpiration.