Effect of wall conduction on natural convection flow of micropolar fluids along a flat plate

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 3641-3652

  Char, Ming I ^a   Chang, Cheng Long ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PRANDTL NUMBER;

CUBIC SPLINE COLLOCATION METHOD; MICROPOLAR FLUIDS; SKIN FRICTION FACTOR;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

CONDUCTION; HEAT TRANSFER; PLATES; WALLS;

EID: 0041630679     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(97)00006-9     Document Type: Article

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