Laminar convection through porous medium between two vertical parallel plates with heat source

Abstract

An exact solution to fully developed flow of a viscous, incompressible fluid in a porous medium between two vertical parallel plates with heat source is presented here. The velocity and temperature profiles are shown graphically and the numerical values of the skin friction and the rate of heat transfer are entered in a table. It is observed that an increase in the permeability parameter σ (or) the Rayleigh number Ra leads to an increase in the velocity and the temperature profiles where there is a decrease in the values of skin friction or the rate of heat transfer.