Volume 47 | Number 4 | Year 2017 | Article Id. IJMTT-V47P537 | DOI : https://doi.org/10.14445/22315373/IJMTT-V47P537
The present article deals with the effect of Dufour number variation on free-convection flow of a viscous incompressible fluid through a porous medium bounded by an infinite vertical porous plate with periodic permeability. Obtaining closed form solution for this type of 3-D flow problems is practically not feasible due to its high degree of non-linearity. So the problem is solved using finite difference and perturbation methods, for which numerical simulation is carried out by coding in C-Program. Graphical results for velocity, temperature, concentration, Skin-friction and Nusselt number are presented and discussed at various parametric conditions. It is observed that velocity, temperature and Nusselt number increase in the presence of Dufour. Dufour effect greatly influence the temperature profile in the thermal boundary layer.
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Kotagiri Srihari, "Dufour Effect on Three-Dimensional Heat and Mass Transfer Flow through a Porous Medium," International Journal of Mathematics Trends and Technology (IJMTT), vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 268-274, 2017. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22315373/IJMTT-V47P537