IJCATR Volume 6 Issue 7

Effects of Variable Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity on Steady MHD Slip Flow of Micropolar Fluid over a Vertical Plate

Bandita Phukan
10.7753/IJCATR0607.1005
keywords : variable viscosity; thermal conductivity; slip flow; micropolar fluid; shooting method.

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Effects of variable viscosity and thermal conductivity on magnetohydrodynamic free convection slip flow and heat transfer of micropolar fluid over a vertical plate with viscous dissipation have been studied. The fluid viscosity and thermal conductivity are assumed to be vary as an inverse linear functions of temperature. The governing partial differential equations of motion are transformed into a system of ordinary differential equations using similarity transformations which are solved numerically for prescribed boundary conditions by shooting method. Numerical results for the velocity, angular velocity and temperature profile are shown graphically for various values of the parameters which gives the flow and heat transfer characteristics of the fluid. The results show that the variable viscosity and thermal conductivity have significant influence on the flow and heat transfer of the fluid
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Title = "Effects of Variable Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity on Steady MHD Slip Flow of Micropolar Fluid over a Vertical Plate",
Journal ="International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research(IJCATR)",
Volume = "6",
Issue ="7",
Pages ="293 - 298",
Year = "2017",
Authors ="Bandita Phukan"}
  • The paper focused on the MHD flow of micropolar fluid
  • The effects of variable viscosity and thermal conductivity on the flow are very significant
  • Due to slip of the flow fluid velocity increases
  • Micro-rotation increases as the viscosity increases.