An analysis has been carried out to study magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow and heat transfer of an electrically conducting micropolar
fluid over a nonlinear stretching surface with variable wall heat flux in the presence of heat generation/absorption and a non-uniform transverse
magnetic field. The governing system of partial differential equations is first transformed into a system of ordinary differential equations using
similarity transformation. The transformed equations are solved numerically. Results for the dimensionless velocity, micro-rotation, and temperature
profiles are displayed graphically delineating the effects of various parameters characterising the flow. The results show that the velocity profile
decreases as the magnetic parameter and the velocity exponent increase, while it increases as the material parameter increases. The results
show also that the temperature profile increases as the magnetic parameter, the velocity exponent, and the heat generation parameter increase.
Furthermore, the temperature profile decreases as the material parameter, the heat absorption parameter, and the Prandtl number increase. |
