The effects of thermal radiation and suction/blowing on an axisymmetric flow and heat transfer of a micropolar fluid over a vertical slender cylinder are analyzed. The partial differential equations governing the flow and heat transfer have been transformed to ordinary differential equations by using similarity transformations which are then solved numerically. The numerical results are validated by favorable comparisons with previously published results. The cases of buoyancy-assisted flow, pure mixed convection, buoyancy opposed flow, permeable cylinder, impermeable cylinder, Newtonian fluids and non-Newtonian fluids as well as the case which represents concentrated particle flow in which the microelements close to the wall surface are unable to rotate and the case which indicates vanishing of an antisymmetric part of the stress tensor are considered. A parametric study of the governing parameters, namely the buoyancy parameter, suction/injection parameter, radiation parameter, vortex viscosity parameter, curvature parameter and microgyration boundary conditions parameter on the linear velocity, angular velocity and temperature as well as the wall stress, wall couple stress and the rate of heat transfer is conducted. A selected set of numerical results is presented graphically and discussed.
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