The flow of a micropolar fluid through a porous expanding channel: A Lie group analysis

In this paper, the flow of a micropolar fluid through a porous channel with deforming walls is investigated. The Lie group method is applied to determine symmetry reductions of partial differential equations. Compared with previous work, the similar variable for the microrotation velocity also is obtained, which is an extension of the case corresponding to the Newtonian fluids (Boutros et al., 2007). This problem we study here can be considered as an extension of the model discussed in Boutros et al. (2007). The effect of the Permeation Reynolds number Re, the micropolar parameter K and the expansion ratio a are studied numerically and the results are plotted. Furthermore, the multiple solutions also can be found for some values of parameters. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.