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Effect of variable viscosity on mixed convection boundary layer flow over a vertical surface embedded in a porous medium

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In this paper, the steady mixed convection boundary layer flow over a vertical impermeable surface embedded in a porous medium was studied, where the viscosity of the fluid varies inversely as a linear function of the temperature.
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This article is published in International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer.The article was published on 2007-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 71 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Boundary layer & Boundary layer thickness.

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Effects of chemical reaction on free convective flow of a polar fluid through a porous medium in the presence of internal heat generation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on the combined effects of free convective heat and mass transfer on the steady two-dimensional, laminar,polar fluid flow through a porous medium in the presence of internal heat generation and chemical reaction.
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Mixed convective heat and mass transfer in a non-Newtonian fluid at a peristaltic surface with temperature-dependent viscosity

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the problem of the unsteady mixed convection peristaltic mechanism with temperature-dependent viscosity with thermal diffusion and diffusion-thermo effects.
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Hydromagnetic convective diffusion of species in Darcy–Forchheimer porous medium with non-uniform heat source/sink and variable viscosity☆

TL;DR: In this paper, the combined effects of magnetic field and convective diffusion of species through a non-Darcy porous medium over a vertical stretching sheet with temperature dependent viscosity and non-uniform heat source/sink were analyzed.
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The Effects of Thermal Radiation, Hall Currents, Soret, and Dufour on MHD Flow by Mixed Convection over a Vertical Surface in Porous Media

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of a magnetic field on heat and mass transfer by mixed convection from vertical surfaces in the presence of Hall, radiation, Soret (thermal-diffusion), and Dufour (diffusion-thermo) effects was investigated.
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Analysis of mixed convection in a lid-driven porous square cavity with linearly heated side wall(s)

TL;DR: In this paper, a lid-driven square cavity filled with porous medium is studied numerically using penalty finite element analysis for uniformly heated bottom wall, linearly heated side walls or cooled right wall.
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Convection in Porous Media

TL;DR: In this paper, an introduction to convection in porous media assumes the reader is familiar with basic fluid mechanics and heat transfer, going on to cover insulation of buildings, energy storage and recovery, geothermal reservoirs, nuclear waste disposal, chemical reactor engineering and the storage of heat-generating materials like grain and coal.
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Handbook of porous media

TL;DR: Theoretical analysis of transport in Porous Media: Multiscale Modeling of Porous Medium Systems as discussed by the authors is a multiscale approach for modelling Porous medium systems.
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Physical and Computational Aspects of Convective Heat Transfer

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analysis of the relationship between mass, momentum, energy, and energy for coupling and uncoupled flows in two-dimensional Laminar and Turbulent boundary layers.
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Transport Phenomena in Porous Media

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a reference record created on 2004-09-07, modified on 2016-08-08, and used for the purpose of a reference document.
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Transport phenomena in porous media

TL;DR: The 1985 Advanced Study Institute on Fundamentals of Transport Phenomena in Porous Media (ASI) as discussed by the authors was a sequel to the first ASCI, which was a combination of a conference of experts and a teaching institute.