Transport in Porous Media, Vol.24, No.2, 157-166, 1996
Combined convection in power-law fluids along a nonisothermal vertical plate in a porous medium
The problem of combined convection from vertical surfaces in a porous medium saturated with a power-law type non-Newtonian fluid is investigated. The transformed conservation laws are solved numerically for the case of variable surface heat flux conditions. Results for the details of the velocity and temperature fields as well as the Nusselt number have been presented. The viscosity index ranged from 0.5 to 2.0.