Natural convection of thermomicropolar fluid from an isothermal surface inclined at a small angle to the horizontal

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 814-832

  Hossain, M A ^a   Chowdhury, M K ^a   Gorla, Rama Subba Reddy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b Cleveland State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Micropolar fluid; Natural convection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001221929     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615539910297888     Document Type: Article

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