Flow and heat transfer of a micropolar fluid in an axisymmetric stagnation flow on a cylinder with variable properties and suction (numerical study) (Q2484221)

This work is a further study of the title problem investigated earlier by \textit{I. A. Hassanien} and \textit{A. A. Salam} [Energy Convers. Management 38(3), 301--310 (1997)]. In that paper, the effect of variation of such properties as density, viscosity and thermal conductivity was neglected. In the current work such variation is taken into consideration and studied using numerical techniques. The asumptions made are that the fluid, density and the thermal conductivity vary linearly with temperature while the fluid viscosity is assumed to vary as a reciprocal of a linear function of temperature. The mathematical technique utilized here is to use the similarity solution to transform the problem into a boundary value problem for nonlinear coupled ordinary differential equations which is then solved by using the Chebyshev finite difference method. A detailed analysis of the results is carried out demonstrating the effects on the micropolar coefficient, Reynolds and Prandtl numbers.