TITLE:
Natural Convective Boundary Layer Flow over a Horizontal Plate Embedded in a Porous Medium Saturated with a Nanofluid
AUTHORS:
Rama Subba Reddy Gorla, Ali Chamkha
KEYWORDS:
Natural Convection, Porous Medium, Nanofluid
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Modern Physics,
Vol.2 No.2,
March
22,
2011
ABSTRACT: 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.