Heat transfer in a micropolar fluid over a stretching sheet with Newtonian heating

Muhammad Qasim; Ilyas Khan; Sharidan Shafie

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059393

Heat transfer in a micropolar fluid over a stretching sheet with Newtonian heating

PLoS One. 2013;8(4):e59393. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059393. Epub 2013 Apr 2.

Authors

Muhammad Qasim¹, Ilyas Khan, Sharidan Shafie

Affiliation

¹ Department of Mathematics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Abstract

This article looks at the steady flow of Micropolar fluid over a stretching surface with heat transfer in the presence of Newtonian heating. The relevant partial differential equations have been reduced to ordinary differential equations. The reduced ordinary differential equation system has been numerically solved by Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg fourth-fifth order method. Influence of different involved parameters on dimensionless velocity, microrotation and temperature is examined. An excellent agreement is found between the present and previous limiting results.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Heating*
Hydrodynamics
Models, Theoretical
Thermal Conductivity*

Grants and funding

The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support received from the Ministry of Higher Education, Research Management Center Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (4F109). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.