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The steady state heat transfer characteristics of a thin vertical strip with internal heat generation placed in a porous medium is studied in this work. The non-dimensional temperature distribution in the strip is obtained as a function of the intensity and distribution of the internal heat sources. Both the thermally thin as the thick wall approximations are considered in this paper. The mass flow rate of fluid induced by heating the strip decreases as the longitudinal heat conduction effects along the strip decreases.
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Received on 22 November 2000 / Published online: 29 November 2001
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Méndez, F., Treviño, C., Pop, I. et al. Conjugate free convection along a thin vertical plate with internal nonuniform heat generation in a porous medium. Heat and Mass Transfer 38, 631–638 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002310100244
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002310100244