TY  - EJOU
AU  - Pranitha, J. 

TI  - SCALING GROUP TRANSFORMATION FOR MIXED CONVECTION IN A POWER-LAW FLUID SATURATED POROUS MEDIUM WITH EFFECTS OF SORET, RADIATION AND VARIABLE PROPERTIES
T2  - Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer

PY  - 2017
VL  - 9
IS  - 1
SN  - 2151-8629

AB  - An analysis is performed to investigate the influence of radiation, thermal-diffusion and variable properties on mixed convection flow, heat and
mass transfer from a vertical plate in a porous medium saturated with a power-law fluid. The non-linear partial differential equations are reduced
to ordinary differential equations by implementing Lie scaling group transformations. These ordinary differential equations are solved numerically
by implementing a shooting technique. The numerical results for dimensionless velocity, temperature and concentration profiles for pseudo-plastic,
Newtonian and dilatant fluids are presented graphically for different values of variable viscosity, variable thermal conductivity, Soret and radiation
parameters. Heat and mass transfer results are presented in tabular form. The present numerical results are compared with previously published work
and the results are found to be in excellent agreement.
KW  - <i>Mixed convection
KW  -  Variable viscosity
KW  -  Power-law fluid
KW  -  Thermal Radiation
KW  -  Thermal conductivity
KW  -  Soret
KW  -  Lie Scaling Group Transformations.</i>

DO  - 10.5098/hmt.9.39