Abstract
An analysis is performed to study the heat transfer characteristics of steady mixed convection flow over a permeable vertical flat plate embedded in an anisotropic fluid-saturated porous medium. The effects of uniform suction and injection on the flow field and heat transfer characteristics are numerically studied by employing an implicit finite difference Keller-box method. It is found that dual solutions exist for both assisting and opposing flows. The results indicate that suction delays the boundary layer separation, while injection accelerates it.
Highlights
Transport processes through porous media play important roles in diverse applications, such as in geothermal operations, petroleum industries, and many others
It is found that dual solutions exist for both assisting and opposing flows
Kaviany 9 used the line integral method to study the heat transfer from a semi-infinite flat plate embedded in a fluid-saturated porous medium
Summary
Transport processes through porous media play important roles in diverse applications, such as in geothermal operations, petroleum industries, and many others. Excellent reviews on this topic can be found in the books by Ingham and Pop 1 , Vafai 2 , Nield and Bejan 3 , Vadasz 4 , and in the review paper by Magyari et al 5. The study of convective heat transfer and fluid flow in porous media has received great attention in recent years. Kaviany 9 used the line integral method to study the heat transfer from a semi-infinite flat plate embedded in a fluid-saturated porous medium. Few studies of convective boundary-layer flows in porous media using
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