TY - JOUR
TI - Influence of thermal radiation and heat generation/absorption on MHD heat transfer flow of a micropolar fluid past a wedge considering hall and ion slip currents
AU - Uddin Ziya
AU - Kumar Manoj
AU - Harmand Souad
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2014
VL - 18
IS - 12
SP - 489
EP - 502
PT - Article
AB - In this paper a numerical model is developed to examine the effect of thermal  radiation on magnetohydrodynamic heat transfer flow of a micropolar fluid  past a non-conducting wedge in presence of heat source/sink. In the model it  is assumed that the fluid is viscous, incompressible and electrically  conducting. The Hall and ion slip effects have also been taken into  consideration. The model contains highly non-linear coupled partial  differential equations which have been converted into ordinary differential  equation by using the similarity transformations. These equations are then  solved numerically by Shooting technique along with the Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg  integration scheme for entire range of parameters with appropriate boundary  conditions. The effects of various parameters involved in the problem have  been studied with the help of graphs. Numerical values of skin friction  coefficients and Nusselt number are presented in tabular form. The results  showed that the micropolar fluids are better to reduce local skin drag as  compared to Newtonian fluids and the presence of heat sink increases the  heat transfer rate.