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Poiseuille-Couette Flow and Heat Transfer in an Inclined Channel for Composite Porous Medium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2012

I-C. Liu ,
H.-H. Wang  and
J. C. Umavathi
I-C. Liu*
Affiliation:
Department of Civil Engineering, National Chi Nan University, Nantou, Taiwan 54561, R.O.C.
H.-H. Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Civil Engineering, National Chi Nan University, Nantou, Taiwan 54561, R.O.C.
J. C. Umavathi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga, Karnataka 585106, India
*
*Corresponding author (icliu@ncnu.edu.tw)
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Abstract

Convective flow and heat transfer in an inclined channel bounded by two rigid plates is studied, where the lower plate is fixed and upper plate is moving with a constant velocity. One of the regions filled with clear viscous fluid and the other region filled with the porous matrix saturated with a viscous fluid different from the fluid in the first region are considered. The coupled nonlinear equations are mainly solved numerically using finite difference method. It is found that the presence of porous matrix in one of the region reduces the velocity and temperature. Both the velocity and temperature profiles enhance as the values of buoyancy parameter GP, height ratio h, Brinkman number Br, density ratio n and thermal expansion ratio b increase but reduce as the values of porous parameter σ, viscosity ratio λand thermal conductivity ratio λT increase. The Nusselt numbers at upper plate diminish as GP, h and Br increase, whereas they increase as σ, λ and λT increase. The lower plate Nusselt numbers are reversely affected by the relevant parameters. The effect of σ and GP on shear stress profiles are drawn and discussed.

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Inclined channelPoiseuille-Couette flowHeat transferImmiscible fluidsViscous dissipation
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Journal of Mechanics , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 171 - 178
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Copyright © The Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, R.O.C. 2012

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