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ISRN Thermodynamics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 704984, 7 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/704984
Analysis of Boundary Layer Flow and Heat Transfer along a Stretching Cylinder in a Porous Medium
Department of Mathematics, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan 713104, India
Received 26 March 2012; Accepted 17 April 2012
Academic Editors: G. L. Aranovich and C. D. Daub
Copyright © 2012 Swati Mukhopadhyay. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This paper presents an axi-symmetric laminar boundary layer flow of a viscous incompressible fluid and heat transfer towards a stretching cylinder embedded in a porous medium. The partial differential equations corresponding to the momentum and heat equations are converted into highly nonlinear ordinary differential equations with the help of similarity transformations. Numerical solutions of these equations are obtained by shooting method. It is found that the velocity decreases with increasing permeability parameter. The skin friction as well as the heat transfer rate at the surface is larger for a cylinder compared to a flat plate.