Uniform lateral mass flux effect on natural convection of non-Newtonian fluids over a cone in porous media
- Air Force Aeronautical and Technical School, Kaohsiung (Taiwan, Province of China). Dept. of General Course
Convective heat transfer in a porous medium has a number of thermal engineering applications such as ceramic processing, nuclear reactor cooling system, crude oil drilling, chemical reactor design, ground water pollution and filtration processes. In this paper, the authors have investigated a boundary layer analysis for uniform lateral mass flux effect on natural convection of non-Newtonian power-law fluids along an isothermal or isoflux vertical cone embedded in a porous medium. Numerical results for the dimensionless temperature profiles as well as the local Nusselt number are presented for the mass flux parameter, viscosity index n and geometry shape parameter {lambda}. The local surface heat transfer increases for the case withdrawal of fluid, the increase of the value of {lambda}. The local Nusselt number is found to be significantly affected by the surface mass flux than the viscosity index.
- OSTI ID:
- 669867
- Journal Information:
- International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Journal Name: International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 25; ISSN 0735-1933; ISSN IHMTDL
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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