Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 659023, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/659023
Research Article
Mixed Convection Boundary Layer Flow over a Permeable Vertical Flat Plate Embedded in an Anisotropic Porous Medium
1Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
2School of Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
3Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cluj, CP 253, 3400 Cluj, Romania
Received 12 November 2009; Revised 19 April 2010; Accepted 17 May 2010
Academic Editor: Mehrdad Massoudi
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Abstract
An analysis is performed to study the heat transfer characteristics of steady mixed convection flow over a permeable vertical flat plate embedded in an anisotropic fluid-saturated porous medium. The effects of uniform suction and injection on the flow field and heat transfer characteristics are numerically studied by employing an implicit finite difference Keller-box method. It is found that dual solutions exist for both assisting and opposing flows. The results indicate that suction delays the boundary layer separation, while injection accelerates it.