Unsteady magnetized flow of micropolar fluid with prescribed thermal conditions subject to different geometries

Abstract

Due to realistic implementations of heat transfer flows, this study communicates with the two cases of the prescribed thermal process. A comparative analysis of the time-dependent flow of a micropolar fluid between two problems of linear stretching sheet and exponential stretching sheet is demonstrated. In the context of the linear stretching sheet, the investigation covers situations involving prescribed surface temperature (PST) and prescribed heat flux (PHF). Likewise, for the exponential stretching sheet, the study examines cases of prescribed exponential order temperature (PEST) and prescribed exponential order heat flux (PEHF). For both problems, the two cases of the thermal process are examined for heat transfer analysis considering joule heating and nonlinear thermal radiation. The two-dimensional flow in the presence of a variable magnetic field is explored for both the linear and exponential stretching sheet problems. Graphical representations are employed to provide a comparative illustration of flow properties concerning relevant parameters for both cases. From the graphical and tabular analysis, we deduce that an exponential stretching sheet provides more consequential results as compared to a linear stretching sheet. Furthermore, the material parameter demonstrates an increase in the velocity field for both of the considered sheets.