TITLE:
A Generic Computational Solution of a Natural Convection Flow past an Infinite Vertical Porous Plate
AUTHORS:
Harouna Naroua, Moussa Idi Bachir
KEYWORDS:
Computer Simulation, Generic Software Tool, Finite Element Method, Laminar Fluid Flow
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Computational Mathematics,
Vol.6 No.4,
November
11,
2016
ABSTRACT: A simulation was carried out on an unsteady flow of a viscous,
incompressible and electrically conducting fluid past an infinite vertical
porous plate. A generic computer program using the Galerkin finite element
method is employed to solve the coupled non-linear differential equations for
velocity and temperature fields. The diffusion equation, the energy equation,
the momentum equations and other relevant parameters are transformed into
interpretable postfix codes. Numerical calculations are carried out on the flow
fields both in the presence of cooling and heating of the plate by free
convection currents. The effects of the dimensionless parameters, namely, the
Prandtl number, the Eckert number, the modified Grashof number, the Schmidt
number and the time on the temperature and velocity distributions are discussed.