The Effects of Local Variation in Thermal Conductivity on Heat Transfer of a Micropolar Fluid Flow Over a Porous Sheet

Subject Areas : Mechanical Engineering

Reza Keimanesh ¹ , Cyrus Aghanajafi ²

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran
2 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran

Received: 2015-07-12 Accepted : 2017-10-31 Published : 2016-06-01

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