Abstract
AbstractThe heat and mass transfer characteristics of natural convection about a vertical surface embedded in a doubly stratified saturated porous medium subjected to a magnetic field is studied, taking into account the Dufour and Soret effects. It is found that the similarity solution exists for the case of uniform surface heat and mass flux conditions when the thermal and solutal stratification of the medium are assumed to have power function form x1/3. The resulting set of ordinary coupled nonlinear differential equations is solved numerically using shooting technique. Nusselt and Sherwood numbers are tabulated for various values of the involved parameters. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
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