Author(s)

Rama Subba Reddy Gorla, Ali Chamkha

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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.

Natural Convection, Porous Medium, Nanofluid

R. Gorla and A. Chamkha, "Natural Convective Boundary Layer Flow over a Horizontal Plate Embedded in a Porous Medium Saturated with a Nanofluid," Journal of Modern Physics, Vol. 2 No. 2, 2011, pp. 62-71. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2011.22011.