Mixed convection - Radiation in power-law fluids along a non-isothermal wedge in a porous medium with variable permeability

被引:5
作者
Mansour, MA [1 ]
El-Shaer, NA
机构
[1] Assiut Univ, Dept Math, Assiut Fac Sci, Assiut, Egypt
[2] S Valley Univ, Dept Math, Aswan Fac Sci, Aswan, Egypt
关键词
mixed convection; power-law fluids; convection-radiation; interaction; porous medium;
D O I
10.1007/s11242-004-4059-6
中图分类号
TQ [化学工业];
学科分类号
0817 ;
摘要
A boundary layer analysis has been presented for the interaction of mixed convection with thermal radiation in laminar boundary flow from a vertical wedge in a porous medium saturated with a power-law type non-Newtonian incorporating the variation of permeability and thermal conductivity. The transformed conservation laws are solved numerically for the case of variable surface temperature conditions. The combined convection non-similar parameter chi = [1 + (Ra-x/Pe(x))(1/2)](-1), we note that chi = 0 and 1 correspond to pure free and forced convection cases. The Rosseland approximation is used to describe the radiative heat flux in energy equation. Velocity and temperature profiles as well as the local Nusselt number are presented.
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页码:333 / 346
页数:14
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