Abstract
This paper deals with the theoretical analysis of laminar fluid flow which results from the stretching of a flat surface in a nanofluid. To overcome the analytical and numerical difficulties of applying the boundary conditions at infinity, a new novel transformation is introduced to change the unbounded domain to a bounded one, i.e., classical boundary conditions, where the boundary conditions at infinity are therefore disappeared. Exact solutions are then obtained for the governing system at special cases of the physical parameters. Not only the present results are reported for the first time, but also an excellent accuracy is resulted on comparing them with those in the standard literatures.