The mixed convection along a vertical plate with variable surface heat flux embedded in porous medium

An analysis is performed for mixed convection along a vertical plate with variable surface heat flux embedded in a non-Darcian porous medium. The non-Darcian convective, boundary viscous and inertia effects are all considered. A finite difference scheme was used to solve the system of transformed governing equations. The results indicate that the non-Darcian effects decrease the velocity and increase the temperature. As the mixed convection parameter increases, the dimensionless wall shear stress increases and the wall temperature decreases. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.