Natural Convective Boundary Layer Flow over a Horizontal Plate Embedded in a Porous Medium Saturated with a Nanofluid

• DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2011.22011
• Publication Date: 2011-03-22T04:50:59Z
• Authors: Rama Subba Reddy ...; Ali Chamkha
• Keywords: Thermophoresis; Lewis number

A boundary layer analysis is presented for the natural convection past a horizontal plate in porous medium saturated with nano fluid. Numerical results friction factor, surface heat transfer rate and mass have been parametric variations of buoyancy ratio parameter Nr, Brownian motion Nb, thermophoresis Nt Lewis number Le. The dependency (Nusselt number) on these parameters has discussed.