The effect of suction and blowing in the study of flow and heat transfer of a viscous incompressible fluid between two vertically eccentric rotating spheres is presented when the spheres are maintained at different temperatures and rotating about a common axis while the angular velocities of the spheres are arbitrary functions of time. The resulting flow pattern, temperature distribution, and heat transfer characteristics are presented for the various cases including exponential and sinusoidal angular velocities. These presentations are for various values of the flow parameters including rotational Reynolds number Re, and the blowing/suction Reynolds number $Rew$. The effects of transpiration and eccentricity on viscous torques at the inner and outer spheres are studied, too. As the eccentricity increases and the gap between the spheres decreases the viscous torque remains nearly unchanged. Results for special case of concentric spheres are obtained by letting eccentricity tend to zero.

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