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

Research Authors
Ahmed Yousof BAKIER
Research Abstract

The pres ent in ves ti ga tion deals with ob tain the so lu tion nat u ral con vec tion bound -
ary layer flow of a micropolar fluid with thermophoresis. The sim i lar ity method is
used to ob tain so lu tion for the gov ern ing equa tion. Four dif fer ent cases of flows
have been stud ied namely a ver ti cal iso ther mal sur face, ver ti cal sur face with uni -
form heat flux, a plane plume and flow gen er ated from a hor i zon tal sur face. Nu mer -
i cal com pu ta tions are car ried out for the non-di men sional phys i cal pa ram e ter. The
re sults are an a lyzed for the ef fect of dif fer ent phys i cal pa ram e ters such as
thermophoresis, Prandtl num ber, microrotation pa ram e ter, buoy ancy pa ram e ter
and Shmidt num ber of the fluid.

Research Department
Research Journal
THERMAL SCIENCE: Year 2010,
Research Rank
1
Research Vol
Vol. 14, No. 1,
Research Year
2010
Research Pages
pp. 171-181