Double diffusive natural convection along an inclined wavy surface in a porous medium

Abstract

This paper studies the double diffusive natural convection near an inclined wavy surface in a fluid saturated porous medium with constant wall temperature and concentration. A coordinate transformation is employed to transform the complex wavy surface to a smooth surface, and the obtained boundary layer equations are solved by the cubic spline collocation method. Effects of angle of inclination, Lewis number, buoyancy ratio, and wavy geometry on the heat and mass transfer characteristics are studied. Results show that a decrease in the angle of inclination leads to a greater fluctuation of the local Nusselt and Sherwood numbers. Moreover, increasing the angle of inclination tends to increase the total heat and mass transfer rates.