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The unsteady forced convection boundary layer flow of nanofluids past a semi-infinite static and moving flat plate are theoretically investigated. The governing equations are transformed into uncoupled ordinary differential equations using a similarity transformation. Numerical solutions of the similarity equations are obtained, using the shooting iteration technique along with the fourth order Runge-Kutta method. The effects of nanoparticles on the velocity, temperature, skin friction and local Nusselt number are investigated numerically. The obtained results of this paper are compared to regular fluid (ø> = 0) with Pr = 0.7 and the comparison shows good agreement with the previous results. It is found that the nanofluid heat transfer rate increases with an increase in the nanoparticles volume fraction and it is shown that the volume fraction affects the fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics.
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