EGA for a Convective Regime Over a Vertical Cylinder Stretching Linearly

Abstract

Abstract This article offers an analysis of entropy generated in mixed convection due to a vertical stretching cylinder placed in heat-generating fluid-saturated porous medium. The governing system of partial differential equations is subjected to a similarity transformation that results in boundary value problem (BVP) comprising ordinary differentials. The BVP solved numerically by Runge-Kutta integration scheme supplemented with shooting method provides momentum and thermal regimes which are readily exploited to enumerate entropy. The entropy distribution is traced and analysed for various parameters’ values.