Natural convection heat and mass transfer from a sphere in micropolar fluids with constant wall temperature and concentration |
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Authors: | Ching-Yang Cheng |
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Affiliation: | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Taiwan University, Yungkang 71005, Taiwan |
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Abstract: | This work examines the natural convection heat and mass transfer near a sphere with constant wall temperature and concentration in a micropolar fluid. A coordinate transformation is used to transform the governing equations into nondimensional nonsimilar boundary layer equations and the obtained boundary layer equations are then solved by the cubic spline collocation method. Results for the local Nusselt number and the local Sherwood number are presented as functions of the vortex viscosity parameter, Schmidt number, buoyancy ratio, and Prandtl number. For micropolar fluids, higher viscosity tends to retard the flow and thus decreases the natural convection heat and mass transfer rates from the sphere with constant wall temperature and concentration. Moreover, the natural convection heat and mass transfer rates from a sphere in Newtonian fluids are higher than those in micropolar fluids. |
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Keywords: | Micropolar fluid Heat and mass transfer Sphere Natural convection |
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