• MASS TRANSFER AND THERMAL RADIATION EFFECTS OVER A STRETCHING SHEET IN A MICROPOLAR FLUID WITH HEAT GENERATION

Abstract

An analysis is carried out to study the effects of mass transfer and thermal radiation on a steady boundary layer flow induced by a linearly stretching sheet immersed in an incompressible micropolar fluid with constant surface temperature in presence of heat generation. Similarity transformation is employed to transform the governing partial differential equations into ordinary ones, which are then solved numerically using the Runge-Kutta fourth order along Shooting method. Results for the velocity, temperature, concentration, heat transfer rate and mass transfer rate profiles are presented for different values of the governing parameters. Comparisons with previously published work are performed and results are found to be in very good agreement.