(1) Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan – Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, 48128, USA, US;(2) Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cluj, R-3400 Cluj, CP253, Romania, RO
Abstract:
Summary A Theoretical analysis is carried out to study the boundary-layer flow over a continuously moving surface through an otherwise
quiescent micropolar fluid. The transformed boundary-layer equations are solved numerically for a power-law surface velocity
using the Keller-box method. The effects of the micropolar K and exponent m parameters on the velocity and microrotation field as well as on the skin-friction group are discussed in a detailed manner.
It is shown that there is a near-similarity solution of this problem. The accuracy of the present solution is also discussed.
Accepted for publication 1 April 1996