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Journal of Porous Media

ISSN for PRINT: 1091-028X

Institutional price:	$713.00
Issues per year:	8

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2007, Volume10

103 pages

Issue price - $99.00

On Heat Transfer Analysis for an Oscillatory Flow of a Second-Grade Fluid through a Porous Medium

Tasawar Hayat
Department of Mathematics, Quaid-i-Azam University, 45320, Islamabad, Pakistan

Z. Abbas
Department of Mathematics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

S. Asghar
Department of Mathematical Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan; Department of Mathematical Sciences, International Institute for Symmetry Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, North West University, South Africa

ABSTRACT

This work is concerned with the influences of heat transfer on an oscillatory flow of a non-Newtonian fluid through a porous medium. A thermodynamic compatible second-grade model is used to characterize the non-Newtonian fluid behavior. By using the modified Darcy's law for a second-grade fluid, the analysis is performed in a porous space. The presented oscillatory flow is analyzed when the no-slip assumption between the porous plate and the fluid is no longer valid. Expressions for velocity and temperature profiles and the rate of heat transfer are obtained and discussed.