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Heat and mass transfer for micropolar flow with radiation effect past a nonlinearly stretching sheet

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HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER
Volume 46, Issue 4, Pages 413-419

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-010-0580-z

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  1. National Science Council R.O.C [NSC 98-2221-E-434-009-]

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In this study, an analysis has been performed for heat and mass transfer with radiation effect of a steady laminar boundary-layer flow of a micropolar flow past a nonlinearly stretching sheet. Parameters n, K, k (0), Pr, Ec, and Sc represent the dominance of the nonlinearly effect, material effect, radiation effect, heat and mass transfer effects which have presented in governing equations, respectively. The similar transformation, the finite-difference method and Runge-Kutta method have been used to analyze the present problem. The numerical solutions of the flow velocity distributions, temperature profiles, the wall unknown values of theta'(0) and I center dot'(0) for calculating the heat and mass transfer of the similar boundary-layer flow are carried out as functions of n, Ec, k (0), Pr, Sc. The value of n, k (0), Pr and Sc parameters are important factors in this study. It will produce greater heat transfer efficiency with a larger value of those parameters, but the viscous dissipation parameter Ec and material parameter K may reduce the heat transfer efficiency. On the other hand, for mass transfer, the value of Sc parameter is important factor in this study. It will produce greater heat transfer efficiency with a larger value of Sc.

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