Mixed convection boundary layer flow from a vertical flat plate embedded in a porous medium filled with nanofluids

Mixed Convection Boundary Layer Flow on a Vertical Surface in a Porous Medium Saturated by a Nanofluid With Suction or Injection

“…Therefore, the present investigation deals with the steady mixed convection boundary layer flow past a permeable vertical flat plate embedded in a porous medium saturated with a nanofluid. This study extends the papers by Ahmad and Pop (2010) to the case of permeable surface. Results are presented in tables and figures showing the effects of the constant suction or injection parameters.…”

“…The thermophysical properties of fluid and nanoparticles (Cu, Al 2 O 3 , TiO 2 ) used in this study are given in Table 1. In order to validate the accuracy of the numerical method used, the present results for the skin friction coefficient f"(0) when ϕ = 0.1 and ϕ = 0.2 for Cu nanoparticles and various values of λ are compared with those of Ahmad and Pop (2010), as shown in Table 2 and 3, respectively. It is clearly seen that the comparison shows very good agreement.…”

“…The present work deals with the steady mixed convection boundary layer flow past a vertical surface embedded in a porous medium saturated by a nanofluid as considered by Ahmad and Pop (2010). We have extended the previous work by taking into consideration the effects of suction or injection with permeable surface.…”

“…It is also assumed that the convecting fluid and the porous medium are in local thermodynamic equilibrium, the viscous dissipation is neglected, the physical properties of the fluid except the density are constant and that the Boussinesq approximation holds. Following the nanofluid equation model proposed by Tiwari and Das (2007) along with the Boussinesq and boundary layer approximations, it is easy to show that the steady boundary layer equations of the present problem are (Ahmad and Pop, 2010):…”

“…Recently, Ahmad and Pop (2010) considered the steady mixed convection boundary layer flow over a vertical flat plate embedded in a porous medium filled with a nanofluid using the nanofluid equation model proposed by Tiwari and Das (2007). The review papers by Arifin et al (2011;2012a); Yasin et al (2012) and Arifin et al (2012b) present excellent collections of published papers on nanofluids using model proposed by Tiwari and Das (2007).…”