THERMAL SCIENCE

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Ahmed Yousof Bakier

EFFECT OF THERMOPHORESIS ON NATURAL CONVECTION BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW OF A MICROPOLAR FLUID

ABSTRACT
The present investigation deals with obtain the solution natural convection boundary layer flow of a micropolar fluid with thermophoresis. The similarity method is used to obtain solution for the governing equation. Four different cases of flows have been studied namely a vertical isothermal surface, vertical surface with uniform heat flux, a plane plume and flow generated from a horizontal surface. Numerical computations are carried out for the non-dimensional physical parameter. The results are analyzed for the effect of different physical parameters such as thermophoresis, Prandtl number, microrotation parameter, buoyancy parameter and Shmidt number of the fluid.
KEYWORDS
thermophoresis, micropolar, heat and mass transfer, natural convection, boundary layer, similarity solution
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2009-01-01
PAPER REVISED: 2009-04-06
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2009-04-12
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI1001171B
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2010, VOLUME 14, ISSUE No. 1, PAGES [171 - 181]
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