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Exact Solutions for a Fluid-Saturated Porous Medium with Heat and Mass Transfer
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2011
Abstract
An analysis is performed to the study of the momentum, heat and mass transfer of a viscous fluid-saturated porous medium past an impermeable, non-isothermal stretching sheet with internal heat generation or absorption and chemical reaction. The governing partial differential equations are converted into ordinary differential equations by means of a similarity transformation. Exact solutions of velocity components together with the pressure distribution, which can not be found in the boundary layer theory, are obtained analytically; in addition, the temperature and concentration functions are given in terms of confluent hypergeometric functions. The velocity, temperature (concentration) profiles and thermal characteristics at the sheet for relevant parameters are plotted, tabulated and discussed.
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