Latin American Applied Research - An international journal · 2020 · 50 citations · 0 references
EngineeringChemical EngineeringMechanical EngineeringFluid DynamicsHeat TransferTransport PhenomenaHeat FlowHeat Transfer AnalysisHeat Transfer FundamentalsHeat Transfer In FluidsHeat Transfer ModelingNumerical Methods For Differential EquationsHeat Transfer MechanismsNumerical Simulation Of Flow And TransportNumerical Solutions Of Ordinary Differential EquationsPorous FlowPorous MediaPorous Media Heat TransferPrandtl NumberSimilarity Transformations
This paper deals with nanofluid flow between parallel plates and heat transfer through porous media with heat source /sink. The governing equations are transformed into self-similar ordinary differential equations by adopting similarity transformations and then the converted equations are solved numerically by Runge-Kutta fourth order method. Special emphasis has been given to the parameters of physical interest which include Prandtl number, magnetic parameter, porous matrix, chemical reaction parameter and heat source parameter. The results obtained for velocity, temperature and concentration are shown in graphs. The comparison of the special case of this present results with the existing numerical solutions in the literature shows excellent agreement.