scholarly journals Analytical treatment of mixed convection flow past vertical flat plate

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mojtaba Babaelahi ◽  
Davood Ganji ◽  
Ahmadi Joneidi

The problem of steady incompressible mixed convection flow past vertical flat plate has been considered. The velocity and temperature equations for this problem are reduced to set of non-linear ordinary differential equations by appropriate transformation and are solved by optimal homotopy asymptotic method. Results show that this method provides us with a convenient way to control the convergence of approximation series and adjust convergence regions when necessary. It is concluded that increment of the Prandtl number leads to diminishing of the temperature values.

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Alam ◽  
M. M. Rahman

In this paper the Dufour and Soret effects on mixed convection flow past a vertical porous flat plate embedded in a porous medium have been studied numerically. The governing non-linear partial differential equations have been transformed by a similarity transformation into a system of ordinary differential equations, which are solved numerically by applying NachtsheimSwigert shooting iteration technique together with sixth order Runge-Kutta integration scheme. For fluids of medium molecular weight (H2, air), profiles of the dimensionless velocity, temperature and concentration distributions are shown graphically for various values of suction parameter fw, Dufour number Du and Soret number Sr. Finally, numerical values of physical quantities, such as the local skin-friction coefficient, the local Nusselt number and the local Sherwood number are presented in tabular form.


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