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Present investigation deals with natural convection heat transfer from a vertical plate embedded in a fluid saturated porous medium whose ambient temperature is not uniform. The problem is solved by integral method of von-Karman type and the closed form solution is obtained. The effects of stratification parameter on local and overall heat transfer coefficients, velocity and temperature profiles are analysed.
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Singh, P., Sharma, K. Integral method to free convection in thermally stratified porous medium. Acta Mechanica 83, 157–163 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01172977
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