Non-Darcy Free Convection of Power-Law Fluids Over a Two-Dimensional Body Embedded in a Porous Medium
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ArticleKAUST Department
Computational Transport Phenomena LabEarth Science and Engineering Program
Environmental Science and Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2010-11-27Online Publication Date
2010-11-27Print Publication Date
2011-02Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/561637
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A boundary layer analysis was presented to study the non-Darcy-free convection of a power-law fluid over a non-isothermal two-dimensional body embedded in a porous medium. The Ostwald-de Waele power-law model was used to characterize the non-Newtonian fluid behavior. Similarity solutions were obtained with variations in surface temperature or surface heat flux. In view of the fact that most of the non-Newtonian fluids have large Prandtl numbers, this study was directed toward such fluids. The effects of the porous medium parameters, k1 and k2, body shape parameter, m, and surface thermal variations parameter, p, as well as the power-law index, n, were examined. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.Citation
El-Amin, M. F., Sun, S., El-Ameen, M. A., Jaha, Y. A., & Gorla, R. S. R. (2010). Non-Darcy Free Convection of Power-Law Fluids Over a Two-Dimensional Body Embedded in a Porous Medium. Transport in Porous Media, 86(3), 965–972. doi:10.1007/s11242-010-9667-8Publisher
Springer NatureJournal
Transport in Porous Mediaae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/s11242-010-9667-8