TY - JOUR
TI - Natural convection heat and mass transfer in a micropolar fluidsaturated non-Darcy porous regime with radiation and thermophoresis effects
AU - Bakier Ahmed Yousof
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2011
VL - 15
IS - 12
SP - 317
EP - 326
PT - Article
AB - An analysis is presented for the steady thermal convection heat and mass  transfer in a micropolar-fluid-saturated non-Darcian porous medium in the  presence of radiation and thermophoresis effects. The governing boundary  layer equations for momentum, energy, species transfer and angular momentum  (micro-rotation) are transformed from an (x,y), coordinate system into (η),  coordinate system. The influence of Darcy number (Da), Forchheimmer number  (Fs), local Grashof number (Gr), Prandtl number (Pr), Schmidt number (Sc),  radiation (R) and thermophoresis (k), surface parameter (s), on the velocity,  temperature, concentration profiles and angular velocity (micro-rotation) are  studied graphically. Applications for the problem arise in chemical  engineering systems and geothermal energy systems.