TY - JOUR
TI - Hydromagnetic flow and heat transfer adjacent to a stretching vertical sheet in a micropolar fluid
AU - Yacob Nor Azizah
AU - Ishak Anuar
AU - Pop Ioan
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2013
VL - 17
IS - 2
SP - 525
EP - 532
PT - Article
AB - An analysis is carried out for the steady two-dimensional mixed convection  flow adjacent to a stretching vertical sheet immersed in an incompressible  electrically conducting micropolar fluid. The stretching velocity and the  surface temperature are assumed to vary linearly with the distance from the  leading edge. The governing partial differential equations are transformed  into a system of ordinary differential equations, which is then solved  numerically using a finite difference scheme known as the Keller box method.  The effects of magnetic and material parameters on the flow and heat  transfer characteristics are discussed. It is found that the magnetic field  reduces both the skin friction coefficient and the heat transfer rate at the  surface for any given K and λ. Conversely, both of them increase as the  material parameter increases for fixed values of M and λ.