The present study deals creeping flow of a micropolar fluid past a sphere coated with thin fluid film. On fluid-film interface we used non-zero spin boundary condition for the micro-rotation vector. Thevariation of drag force with respect to different parameters is studied and some previous results deduced from present analysis.

Pankaj Shukla

Mathematics

School of Advanced Sciences

Chennai Campus

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Journal	Indian Journal of Science and Technology
Publisher	Indian Society for Education and Environment
ISSN	0974-6846
Open Access	0