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The mixed convection boundary-layer flow on a horizontal impermeable surface embedded in a saturated porous medium and driven by a local heat source is considered. Similarity solutions are obtained for specific outer flow variations and these are shown to have a solution only for parameter values greater than some critical value. When this is not the case the solution develops a singularity at a finite distance from the leading edge. The nature of this singularity is also discussed.
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Merkin, J.H., Pop, I. Mixed Convection on a Horizontal Surface Embedded in a Porous Medium: the Structure of a Singularity. Transport in Porous Media 29, 355–364 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006556111769
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