CONVECTIVE WALL PLUME IN MICROPOLAR FLUIDS

A boundary layer analysis is presented to study the steady-state free convection. Slow arising from a line thermal source located at the lea ding edge of a vertical adiabatic surface embedded in a micropolar flu id, Nonsimilar solutions based on the finite difference method are pre sented for the velocity, angular velocity, and temperature fields. One case is identified where similarity solutions are possible. The resul ts are presented Sor Prandtl number Pr = 1 and 10, and the micropolar parameters Delta ranging from 0.5 to 5 and n = 0; 0.5, 1.