Effects of Magnetic Field and Nonlinear Temperature Profile on Marangoni Convection in Micropolar Fluid

The combined effects of a uniform vertical magnetic field and a nonuniform basic temperature profile on the onset of steady Marangoni convection in a horizontal layer of micropolar fluid are studied. The closed-form expression for the Marangoni number M for the onset of convection, valid for polynom...

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Main Authors: M. N. Mahmud, R. Idris, I. Hashim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2009-01-01
Series:Differential Equations and Nonlinear Mechanics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/748794