Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMOPHYSICS
Volume 34, Issue 11, Pages 2183-2208Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10765-013-1528-6
Keywords
MHD; Micropolar fluid; Porous medium; Thermal radiation; Heat generation; Chemical reaction; Slip-flow
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An analytical study of the problem of unsteady free convection with thermal radiation and heat generation on MHD micropolar fluid flow through a porous medium bounded by a semi-infinite vertical plate in a slip-flow regime has been presented. The Rosseland diffusion approximation is used to describe the radiation heat flux in the energy equation. The homogeneous chemical reaction of first order is accounted for in the mass diffusion equation. A uniform magnetic field acts perpendicular on the porous surface absorbing micropolar fluid with a suction velocity varying with time. A perturbation technique is applied to obtain the expressions for the velocity, microrotation, temperature, and concentration distributions. Expressions for the skin-friction, Nusselt number, and Sherwood number are also obtained. The results are discussed graphically for different values of the parameters entered into the equations of the problem.
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