TY  - EJOU
AU  - Reddy, Machireddy Gnaneswara 
AU  - Reddy, Gorla Rama Subba 

TI  - MICROPOLAR FLUID FLOW OVER A NONLINEAR STRETCHING  CONVECTIVELY HEATED VERTICAL SURFACE IN THE PRESENCE  OF CATTANEO-CHRISTOV HEAT FLUX AND VISCOUS DISSIPATION
T2  - Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer

PY  - 2017
VL  - 8
IS  - 1
SN  - 2151-8629

AB  - The objective of the present communication is to study the problem of micropolar fluid flow with temperature dependent thermal conductivity over a 
nonlinear stretching convective vertical surface in the presence of Lorentz force and viscous dissipation. Due to the nature of heat transfer in the flow 
past vertical surface, Cattaneo-Christov heat flux model and Joule heating effects are properly accommodated in the energy equation. The governing 
partial differential equations for the flow and heat transfer are converted into a set of ordinary differential equations by employing the acceptable 
similarity transformations. Runge-Kutta and Newton’s methods are utilized to resolve the altered governing nonlinear equations. Obtained numerical 
results are compared with the available literature and found to be an excellent agreement. The impacts of dimensionless governing flow pertinent 
parameters on velocity, micropolar velocity and temperature profiles are presented graphically and analyzed in detail. Further, the variations of skin 
friction coefficient and local Nusselt number are displayed for the sundry flow parameters. It is found that fluid temperature profile declines for 
larger thermal relaxation parameter. Both temperature and thermal boundary layer thickness decreases for enhancing values of Prandtl number.
KW  - Magnetohydrodynamics
KW  -  micropolar fluid
KW  -  heat transfer
KW  -  convective boundary condition
KW  -  Cattaneo-Christov heat flux

DO  - 10.5098/hmt.8.20