• SIMILARITY SOLUTION ON FREE CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER FLOW THROUGH POROSITY MEDIUM

Abstract

Free convection heat transfer fluid flow past a vertical plate embedded in a fluid saturated porosity medium is investigated based on numerical solution. The plate with variable temperature and heat flux on the surface is assumed. Both families submit to mathematical analysis by the conventional techniques of laminar boundary layer theory i.e. they permit the finding of similar solutions of the boundary layer equations. Expressions for the velocity, temperature, local skin-friction and rate of heat transfer are constructed on graphs.