Dual solutions for unsteady mixed convection flow of MHD micropolar fluid over a stretching/shrinking sheet with non-uniform heat source/sink

• Main Authors: N. Sandeep, C. Sulochana
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2015-12-01
• Series: Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal
• Subjects: MHD; Dissipation; Mocropolar fluid; Stretching/shrinking; Suction/injection; Non-uniform heat source/sink; Chemical reaction
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215098615000762

The aim of the present study is to investigate the influence of non-uniform heat source/sink, mass transfer and chemical reaction on an unsteady mixed convection boundary layer flow of a magneto-micropolar fluid past a stretching/shrinking sheet in the presence of viscous dissipation and suction/injection. The governing equations of the flow, heat and mass transfer are transformed into system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations by using similarity transformation and then solved numerically using Shooting technique with Matlab Package. The influence of non-dimensional governing parameters on velocity, microrotation, temperature and concentration profiles are discussed and presented with the help of their graphical representations. Also, friction factor, heat and mass transfer rates have been computed and presented through tables. Under some special conditions, present results are compared with the existed results to check the accuracy and validity of the present study. An excellent agreement is observed with the existed results.