International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research

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2007, Volume34

S. M. M. EL-Kabeir
Mathematics Department, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Aswan, Egypt

Rama Subba Reddy Gorla
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cleveland State University, 2121 Euclid Ave., SH232, Cleveland, Ohio 44115, USA

A boundary layer solution is presented for the natural convection in a micropolar fluid in the vicinity of a three-dimensional axisymmetric stagnation point on heated vertical surfaces embedded in a micropolar fluid-saturated porous medium in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. The governing equations for the velocity, microrotation, and temperature fields are solved numerically. A parametric study is made to investigate the influence of the inverse Darcy number parameter Ak, magnetic parameter Mn, and micropolar parameter Δ on skin friction, couple stress, as well as the Nusselt number. Numerical results are shown in graphical and tabular form.

DOI: 10.1615/InterJFluidMechRes.v34.i2.40 Download article, 145-158 pages

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