Free convection in micropolar fluids over a uniformly heated vertical plate

Abstract

A boundary layer solution is presented to the steady free convection from a vertical plate with uniform surface heat flux conditions and immersed in a micropolar fluid. Numerical solutions for governing nonsimilar boundary layer equations are presented for a range of values of the material properties and Prandtl number of the fluid. An asymptotic solution is developed for large distances away from the leading edge.

Citation

Subba Reddy Gorla, R., Slaouti, A. and Takhar, H.S. (1998), "Free convection in micropolar fluids over a uniformly heated vertical plate", International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 8 No. 5, pp. 504-518. https://doi.org/10.1108/09615539810220261