TY  - EJOU
AU  - Srinivasacharya, D.  
AU  - Reddy, G. Swamy  

TI  - Effect of Double Stratification on Free Convection in a Power-Law Fluid Saturated Porous Medium
T2  - Fluid Dynamics \& Materials Processing

PY  - 2013
VL  - 9
IS  - 3
SN  - 1555-2578

AB  - Free convection and related heat and mass transfer along a vertical plate embedded in a power-law fluid saturated Darcy porous medium with thermal and solutal stratification effects is studied. The governing partial differential equations are transformed into ordinary differential equations using similarity transformations and then solved numerically by means of a shooting method. The variations of non-dimensional velocity, temperature and concentration are presented graphically for various values of the power-law index, and of the thermal and solutal stratification parameters. In addition, the heat and mass transfer rates are tabulated for different values of the governing nondimensional numbers.
KW  - Free convection
KW  -  Power-law fluid
KW  -  Vertical plate
KW  -  Porous media
KW  -  Thermal and solutal stratification

DO  - 10.3970/fdmp.2013.009.291