The coupling of conduction with mixed convection of micropolar fluids past a vertical flat plate

Abstract

In this paper, the thermo-fluid-dynamic field resulting from the coupling of wall conduction with laminar mixed convection heat transfer of micropolar fluids along a vertical flat plate is studied. A conjugate heat transfer is proposed to serve as a controlling index that indicates the effect of wall conduction. After a suitable coordinate transformation to reduce the complex of the governing boundary layer equations, the resulting nonlinear differential equations were solved with an implicit finite difference method. The effects of the micropolar material parameters, the buoyancy parameter, the Prandtl number and the conjugate heat transfer parameter on the flow and the thermal fields are discussed in detail.