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Effects of Radiation, Free Convection and Mass Transfer on an Unsteady Flow of a Micropolar Fluid Over a Vertical Moving Porous Plate Immersed in a Porous Medium With Time Varying Suction
Authors: Navin Kumar*, Tanu Jain** and Sandeep Gupta**
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ABSTRACT : In the present paper, an analysis is carried out to study the free convection, thermal radiation and
mass transfer effects on an unsteady flow of a viscous incompressible micropolar fluid over a vertical moving
porous plate immersed in a porous medium with time varying suction velocity. The plate moves with the constant
velocity in the longitudinal direction, and the free stream velocity follows an exponentially small perturbation
law. The velocity and temperature distributions are derived, discussed and their profiles shown through graphs.
Also, the results of coefficient of skin-friction, the rate of the heat transfer in terms of Nusselt number and the
ratio of convective to diffusive mass transport in terms of Sherwood number at the plate are prepared with
various values of fluid properties and flow conditions.