Existence and uniqueness results for a nonlinear differential equation arising in viscous flow over a nonlinearly stretching sheet (Q609997)

The problem to find a self-similarity solution of the boundary value problem \[ \overline u\overline u_x+ v\overline u_y=\nu\overline u_{yy},\quad u_x= v_y= 0,\quad u= cx^n,\quad v= 0\quad\text{at }y= 0, \] \[ u\to 0\quad\text{as }y\to\infty \] governing the steady flow over a nonlinearly stretching sheet leads to the boundary value problem for an ordinary differential equation \[ \begin{gathered} f'''+ f''-{2n\over n+1}\, f^{\prime 2}= 0,\\ f(0)= 0,\;f'(0)= 1,\;f'(\eta)\to 0\quad\text{as }\eta\to\infty.\end{gathered}\tag{\(*\)} \] The authors establish the existence of a unique solution \(f\) to \((*)\) for \(-{1\over 3}< n<\infty\) and derive monotonicity properties of \(f\), \(f'\) and \(f''\).