Boundary layer heat transfer in a micropolar fluid over a flat plate with vectored surface mass transfer

An analysis is presented for the heat transfer in a micropolar fluid boundary layer over a flat plate with uniformly distributed vectored surface mass transfer. Numerical solutions for the governing nonsimilar boundary layer equations are presented for a range of values of the material properties and Prandtl number of the fluid. The results indicate that the micropolar fluids display a reduction in drag as well as heat transfer rate when compared with Newtonian fluids.