Unsteady Mixed Convection Flow in the Stagnation Region of a Three Dimensional Body Embedded in a Porous Medium
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F. S. S. Ibrahim
Assiut University, Egypt
Published 2008-01-25
https://doi.org/10.15388/NA.2008.13.1.14587
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Keywords

unsteady flow
mixed convection
stagnation-point
self-similar solution
porous media

How to Cite

Ibrahim, F.S.S. (2008) “Unsteady Mixed Convection Flow in the Stagnation Region of a Three Dimensional Body Embedded in a Porous Medium”, Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control, 13(1), pp. 31–46. doi:10.15388/NA.2008.13.1.14587.

Abstract

An analysis is preformed to study the heat transfer characteristic of unsteady mixed convection flow of a viscous fluid in the vicinity of a stagnation point of a general three-dimensional body embedded in a porous media. The velocity in the potential flow is assumed to vary arbitrary with time. The non-Darcy effects including convective, boundary and inertial effects are included in the analysis. Both nodal-point region (0 ≤ c ≤ 1), where c = b/a is the ratio of the velocity gradients in y and x directions in the potential flow and saddle point region (−1 ≤ c < 0) are considered. The semisimilar solutions of the momentum and energy equations are obtained numerically using finite difference method. Also a self-similar solution is found when the velocity in the potential flow and the wall temperature vary with time in particular manner. Many results are obtained and a representative set is displayed graphically to illustrate the influence of the physical parameters on the surface shear stresses and the surface heat transfer.

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