Heat Generation and Soret-Dufour Effects on Heat and Mass Transfer in Mixed Convection Flows of Power-Law Fluids about a VHF/VMF Plate in Porous Media: The Entire Regime
Ch. J. Huang, K. A. Yih
Air Force Institute of Technology, Gaosyun, Taiwan
Keywords: internal heat generation, Soret-Dufour effects, non-Newtonian fluid, mixed convection, vertical plate
Abstract
In this paper, a two-dimensional, steady, laminar boundary layer analysis is presented to analyze numerically the internal heat generation and Soret-Dufour effects on mixed convection flows of power-law fluids adjacent to a vertical flat plate maintained at variable heat flux and variable mass flux conditions in a Darcy porous medium. The Ostwald-de Waele power-law model is utilized here. The transformed governing equations are solved by the Keller box method. After performing comparisons with previously published results, good agreement is obtained.
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