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Free convective oscillatory flow of a polar fluid through a porous medium in the presence of oscillating suction and temperature

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The aim of this work is to analyze a two-dimensional oscillatory free convective flow of an incompressible polar fluid through a porous medium bounded by an infinite vertical porous plate with oscillating suction and temperature at the wall. The governing equations are based on the volume averaging technique. Analytical expressions for the velocity, angular velocity, and temperature fields are obtained by using the regular perturbation technique. The analysis reveals a multiple boundary layer structure near the wall for the fields mentioned.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, J. S. S. College of Science, Vidyagiri, Dharwad, 580 004, Karnataka, India

    P. M. Patil

  2. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560 012, India

    P. S. Kulkarni

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Published in Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 82, No. 6, pp. 1118–1124, November–December, 2009.

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Patil, P.M., Kulkarni, P.S. Free convective oscillatory flow of a polar fluid through a porous medium in the presence of oscillating suction and temperature. J Eng Phys Thermophy 82, 1138–1145 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-010-0304-8

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