Possible transformations for natural convection on a vertical flat plate embedded in porous media with prescribed wall heat flux
- Tatung Inst. of Tech., Taipei (Taiwan, Province of China). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
This study derived the transformation of boundary layer equations for two-dimensional steady natural convection on a vertical wall embedded in porous media. Three different kinds of thermal boundary conditions are prescribed for wall heat flux: uniform distribution, power law variation, and exponential variation. The flow pattern contains three subregions based on the distance along the flat plate. When inertia resistance is ignored, similarity solution exists in case wall heat flux is in linear distribution. The known relationships of uniform wall temperature relative to wall heat flux variation and uniform wall heat flux relative to wall temperature variation in both cases of the pure fluid flow and the pure porous flow can all be obtained in the present transformation.
- OSTI ID:
- 397894
- Journal Information:
- International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Journal Name: International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 23; ISSN 0735-1933; ISSN IHMTDL
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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