Natural Convective Boundary Layer Flow Over a Nonisothermal Vertical Plate Embedded in a Porous Medium Saturated With a Nanofluid

Abstract

A boundary layer analysis is presented for the natural convection past a horizontal plate in a porous medium saturated with a nano fluid. Numerical results for friction factor, surface heat transfer rate and mass transfer rate have been presented for parametric variations of the buoyancy ratio parameter Nr, Brownian motion parameter Nb, thermophoresis parameter Nt and Lewis number Le. The dependency of the friction factor, surface heat transfer rate (Nusselt number) and mass transfer rate on these parameters has been discussed.

Numerical Solution of Unsteady Hydromagnetic Natural Convection Flow of Heat Absorbing Fluid past an Impulsively Moving Vertical Plate with Ramped Temperature

“…Therefore, we obtain first the solution for fluid temperature   , T y t by solving equation (6) and then using it in equation (5) solution for the fluid velocity   , u y t is obtained.…”

“…Several researchers investigated natural convection flow near a vertical plate embedded in a porous medium considering different aspects of the problem. Mention may be made of research studies of Cheng and Minkowycz [1], Nakayama and Koyama [2], Lai and Kulacki [3], Hsieh et al [4], Nield and Kuznetsov [5] and Gorla and Chamkha [6]. Comprehensive reviews of thermal convection in porous media along with its wide variety of engineering applications are well presented by Ingham and Pop [7], Vafai [8] and Nield and Bejan [9].…”

Free convection of non-Newtonian nanofluids about a vertical truncated cone in a porous medium

“…Ahmad and Pop [14] studied the mixed convection boundary layer flow from a vertical flat plate embedded in a porous medium filled with nanofluids. Gorla and Chamkha [15] studied the natural convective boundary layer flow over a nonisothermal vertical plate embedded in a porous medium saturated with a nanofluid. Khan and Pop [16] examined the free convection boundary layer flow past a horizontal flat plate embedded in a porous medium filled with a nanofluid.…”

Triple diffusive convection with Soret–Dufour effects in a Maxwell nanofluid saturated in a Darcy porous medium

“…In fact, Buongiorno's model states that there are thermo-diffusion and diffusion-thermo effects in nanofluids and hence an anomalous convective heat transfer is reported. Buongiorno's model plays an incredible role for various researches on different aspects of nanofluids [5,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15].…”