Analysis of the roughness regimes for micropolar fluids via homogenization

Abstract

We study the asymptotic behavior of micropolar fluid flows in a thin domain of thickness ${\eta }_{\epsilon }$ with a periodic oscillating boundary with wavelength $\epsilon$. We consider the limit when $\epsilon$ tends to zero and, depending on the limit of the ratio of ${\eta }_{\epsilon }/\epsilon$, we prove the existence of three different regimes. In each regime, we derive a generalized Reynolds equation taking into account the microstructure of the roughness.

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