Similarity Solutions for the Boundary Layer Flow and Heat Transfer of Viscous Fluids, Nanofluids, Porous Media, and Micropolar Fluids

2022 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. C. Shit ◽  
R. Haldar ◽  
A. Sinha

AbstractA non-linear analysis has been made to study the unsteady hydromagnetic boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a micropolar fluid over a stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium. The effects of thermal radiation in the boundary layer flow over a stretching sheet have also been investigated. The system of governing partial differential equations in the boundary layer have reduced to a system of non-linear ordinary differential equations using a suitable similarity transformation. The resulting non-linear coupled ordinary differential equations are solved numerically by using an implicit finite difference scheme. The numerical results concern with the axial velocity, micro-rotation component and temperature profiles as well as local skin-friction coefficient and the rate of heat transfer at the sheet. The study reveals that the unsteady parameter S has an increasing effect on the flow and heat transfer characteristics.


Fluids ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Safaei ◽  
Goodarz Ahmadi ◽  
Mohammad Goodarzi ◽  
Amin Kamyar ◽  
S. Kazi

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