TY - JFULL AU - Mohd Nasir Mahmud and Ruwaidiah Idris and Ishak Hashim PY - 2009/3/ TI - Effect of a Magnetic Field on the Onset of Marangoni Convection in a Micropolar Fluid T2 - International Journal of Physical and Mathematical Sciences SP - 142 EP - 145 VL - 3 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/6244 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 26, 2009 N2 - With the presence of a uniform vertical magnetic field and suspended particles, thermocapillary instability in a horizontal liquid layer is investigated. The resulting eigenvalue is solved by the Galerkin technique for various basic temperature gradients. It is found that the presence of magnetic field always has a stability effect of increasing the critical Marangoni number. ER -