Affiliation:
1. Department of Mathematics, MGIT, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Abstract
An attempted is made on the free convection flow of an incompressible viscous fluid in the profile in terms of heat characteristics were analyzed. The flow is assumed to be along the axis of the channel. The uniform temperature is considered in the study. The momentum conservation equations for the fully developed flow are based on the Brinkman model. The viscous and Darcy dissipation are taken into account in the energy equation as the modification of the heat flow. By using the finite element method, the fluid and the porous matrix are in local thermal equilibrium and the flow is unidirectional along the direction of the buoyancy. The non-linear equations governing the flow, heat and mass transfer have been analyzed. Various parameters such as the velocity, temperature, concentration, Nusselt number, and Sherwood number are analyzed and their behavior is interpreted in the paper.
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