Convective Wall Plume in Micropolar Fluids

Abstract

A boundary layer analysis is presented to study the steady-state free convection flow arising from a line thermal source located at the leading edge of a vertical adiabatic surface embedded in a micropolar fluid. Nonsimilar solutions based on the finite difference method are presented for the velocity, angular velocity, and temperature fields. One case is identified where similarity solutions are possible. The results are presented for Prandtl number Pr = 1 and 10, and the micropolar parameters Δ ranging from 0.5 to 5 and n = 0, 0.5, 1.