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Ag-water nanofluid flow over an inclined porous plate embedded in a non-Darcy porous medium due to solar radiation

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The heat absorber uses in solar power plants have generally low energy adaptation owing to large emissive losses at high temperature. Recently, nanofluid based solar energy absorber have acknowledged immense scientific curiosity to competent share and store the thermal energy. Here we examine theoretically the natural convective flow of an Ag nanoparticle based nanofluid flow along an inclined flat sheet embedded in a Darcy-Forchheimer permeable medium coexistence of solar radiation. By use of similarity transformations, the fundamental partial differential system and boundary conditions are tackled numerically using Runge-Kutta Gill based shooting procedure. The impacts of governing parameters upon the flow, temperature, Nusselt number and skin friction coefficient are represented tabular as well as in graphical form.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Techno India College of Technology, Newtown, Kolkata, 700156, W.B., India

    Tanmoy Chakraborty

  2. Department of Mathematics, A.B.N.Seal College, Cooch, Behar, W.B., India

    Kalidas Das

  3. Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 700032, W.B., India

    Prabir Kumar Kundu

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Tanmoy Chakraborty has completed his M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Calcutta in 2012. Now he is going to complete Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University. So far he had 3 research papers published in International journals in the fields of fluid mechanics (MHD and Nanofluids). He is now working as an Assistant Professor in Techno India College of Technology, West Bengal, India.

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Chakraborty, T., Das, K. & Kundu, P.K. Ag-water nanofluid flow over an inclined porous plate embedded in a non-Darcy porous medium due to solar radiation. J Mech Sci Technol 31, 2443–2449 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-017-0442-4

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