effects of slip and heat generationabsorption on mhd mixed convection flow of a micropolar fluid over a heated stretching surface滑动的影响和热generationabsorption磁流体动力混合对流流动的微极流体加热拉伸表面.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2010, Article ID 579162, 20 pages doi:10.1155/2010/579162 Research Article Effects of Slip and Heat Generation/Absorption on MHD Mixed Convection Flow of a Micropolar Fluid over a Heated Stretching Surface Mostafa Mahmoud and Shimaa Waheed Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Qalyubia 13518, Egypt Correspondence should be addressed to Shimaa Waheed, shimaa ezat@ Received 27 April 2010; Revised 20 June 2010; Accepted 21 July 2010 Academic Editor: Cristian Toma Copyright q 2010 M. Mahmoud and S. Waheed. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A theoretical analysis is performed to study the flow and heat transfer characteristics of magnetohydrodynamic mixed convection flow of a micropolar fluid past a stretching surface with slip velocity at the surface and heat generation absorption. The transformed equations solved numerically using the Chebyshev spectral method. Numerical results for the velocity, the angular velocity, and the temperature for various values of different parameters are illustrated graphically. Also, the effects of various parameters on the local skin-friction coefficient and the local Nusselt number are given in tabular form and discussed. The results show that the mixed convection parameter has the effect of enhancing both the velocity and the local Nusselt number and suppressing both the local skin-friction coefficient and the temperature. It is found that local skin-friction coefficient increases while the local Nusselt number decrease