Analysis of Micropolar Fluid Flow Through a Porous Channel Driven by Suction/Injection with High Mass Transfer

Abstract

In this paper, the flow of a micropolar fluid conveyed through a porous channel driven by suction or injection with a high mass transfer is analyzed using the regular perturbation method to solve the coupled nonlinear ordinary equations arising from the mechanics of fluid. The developed analytical solutions are used to investigate the effects of flow and rotation parameters such as Reynolds number and microrotation parameters. The obtained analytical results, when compared to the results of the other methods in the existing works in literature, are in good agreement. The results obtained from this paper can be used to further the study of the behavior of micropolar fluids in applications including as lubricants, blood flow, porous media, microchannels and flow in capillaries.