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Applied Mathematics, 2012, 3, 205-209 /10.4236/am.2012.33032 Published Online March 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/am) Boundary Layer Flow past a Stretching Cylinder and Heat Transfer with Variable Thermal Conductivity Rekha R. Rangi, Naseem Ahmad Department of Mathematics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India Email: rdrekhadahiya@ Received October 28, 2011; revised December 24, 2011; accepted January 2, 2012 ABSTRACT The boundary layer flow of viscous incompressible fluid over a stretching cylinder has been considered to study flow field and temperature field. Due to non-linearity, a numerical approach called Keller-box technique has been used to compute the values of velocity function f and temperature field at different points of dynamic region. The expressions for skin friction and Nusselt number have also been obtained. The dependence of velocity profile and temperature pro- file on the dimensionless parameter of practical interest has been analyzed in detail by graphs. The dependence of Skin friction and Nusselt number has been seen through tables. Keywords: Boundary Layer Equation; Keller-Box Method; Energy Equation; Variable Thermal Conductivity; Prandtl Number 1. Introduction surface in a quiescent viscous and incompressible fluid when the buoyancy forces are taken into consideration The boundary layer flow and heat transfer due to stretch- have been considered in the papers [4-11]. Lin and Shih ing flat plates or cylinders are of practical importance in [12,13] considered the laminar boundary layer and heat fiber technology and extrus