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Journal of Porous Media

ISSN for PRINT: 1091-028X

Institutional price:	$713.00
Issues per year:	8

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2006, Volume9

112 pages

Issue price - $155.00

Paradox of the Darcy Free Convection over a Vertical Plate with Prescribed Inverse Linear Surface Heat Flux

E. Magyari
Chair of Physics of Buildings, Institute of Building Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland

ABSTRACT

It is generally accepted that the Darcy free convection problem for a vertical impermeable plate does not admit similarity solutions when the prescribed surface heat flux is an inverse linear function of the wall coordinate. The present paper explains why this is not unconditionally true, and gives the similarity solution of the problem in an exact analytical form.