Abstract
The combined effects of a uniform vertical magnetic field and a nonuniform basic temperature profile on the onset of steady Marangoni convection in a horizontal layer of micropolar fluid are studied. The closed-form expression for the Marangoni number for the onset of convection, valid for polynomial-type basic temperature profiles upto a third order, is obtained by the use of the single-term Galerkin technique. The critical conditions for the onset of convection have been presented graphically.
Citation
M. N. Mahmud. R. Idris. I. Hashim. "Effects of Magnetic Field and Nonlinear Temperature Profile on Marangoni Convection in Micropolar Fluid." Int. J. Differ. Equ. 2009 1 - 11, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1155/2009/748794
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