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Free-convection flow past an impulsively started vertical plate in a porous medium by finite difference method

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A numerical solution for the effects of the free-convection currents of a viscous fluid through a porous medium bounded by a vertical moving infinite vertical plate is considered, when the flow is unsteady. The graphs of velocity profiles for different values of permeability parameter of the porous medium and the Grashof number are discussed.

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  1. Department of Mechanics, University of Ioannina, Greece

    A. A. Raptis

  2. Department of Mathematics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

    A. K. Singh

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Raptis, A.A., Singh, A.K. Free-convection flow past an impulsively started vertical plate in a porous medium by finite difference method. Astrophys Space Sci 112, 259–265 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00653508

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