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This study deals with free convection heat and mass transfer from a vertical plate embedded in a fluid saturated porous medium with constant wall temperature and concentration. The temperature and concentration variations across the boundary layer produce a buoyancy effect which gives rise to flow field. Integral method of Von-Karman type is applied to obtain the analytical solution of this fundamental problem.
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Singh, P., Queeny Free convection heat and mass transfer along a vertical surface in a porous medium. Acta Mechanica 123, 69–73 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01178401
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