Mixed convective heat transfer from a vertical plate embedded in a saturated non-Darcy porous medium with concentration and melting effect

Abstract

The effect of melting and solute dispersion on heat and mass transfer in non-Darcy fluid flow over a vertical surface has been studied numerically in the present article. The flow is assumed to be laminar and steady state. Using similarity transformations, the governing boundary layer equations are transformed into self-similar nonlinear ordinary differential equations, which are then solved by using boundary value problem solver. A comparison with the numerical results made for different R a/P e values in the absence of some particular parameters. The velocity and concentration inside the boundary layer are observed to be influenced by the parameters like R a/P e,L,B,M. The flow heat and mass transfer coefficients are discussed through the plots.