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    Mixed convection flow of a micropolar fluid over a stretching sheet

    Takhar, Harmindar S., Agarwal, R. S., Bhargava, Rama and Jain, S. (1998) Mixed convection flow of a micropolar fluid over a stretching sheet. Heat and Mass Transfer, 34 (2-3). pp. 213-219. ISSN 0947-7411

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    Abstract

    The mixed convective flow of a steady, incompressible micropolar fluid over a stretching sheet has been studied. This situation may arise in polymer technology involving the stretching of plastics sheets. The resulting system of non-linear ordinary coupled differential equations has been solved by the finite element method, using the variational Ritz model. Numerical results obtained for velocity, microrotation and temperature distributions are shown graphically. It was found that an increase in the micropolar parameter leads to a faster rate of cooling of the sheet. Also the velocity increases with an increase in micropolar effects. Microrotation effects are much smaller for the no-spin boundary condition as compared to the other boundary condition which assumes that the gyration vector is identical to the angular velocity of the fluid.

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