MICROPOLAR FLOW PAST A STRETCHING SHEET

Sankara, Kishore Kumar and Watson, Layne T. (1984) MICROPOLAR FLOW PAST A STRETCHING SHEET. Technical Report CS84006-R, Computer Science, Virginia Tech.

Abstract

This paper studies the flow of an incompressible, constant density micropolar fluid past a stretching sheet. The governing boundary layer equations of the flow are solved numerically using a globally convergent homotopy method in conjunction with a least change secant update quasi- Newton algorithm. The flow pattern depends on three non-dimensional parameters. Some interesting results are illustrated graphically and discussed.