Natural Convective Boundary Layer Flow over a Horizontal Plate Embedded in a Porous Medium Saturated with a Nanofluid

• 作者: Ali Chamkha Rama Subba Reddy Gorla
• 来源期刊: 现代物理(英文)
• 学科: 物理学
• 关键词: NATURAL CONVECTION Porous Medium NANOFLUID
• 年，卷（期）: 2011,（2）
• 页码范围: 62-71
• 页数: 10页
• 分类号: O35

摘要

A boundary layer analysis is presented for the natural convection past a horizontal plate in a porous medium saturated with a nano fluid. Numerical results for friction factor, surface heat transfer rate and mass transfer rate have been presented for parametric variations of the buoyancy ratio parameter Nr, Brownian motion parameter Nb, thermophoresis parameter Nt and Lewis number Le. The dependency of the friction factor, surface heat transfer rate (Nusselt number) and mass transfer rate on these parameters has been discussed.