TY - JOUR
TI - Heat transfer effects in a Couette flow through a composite channel partly filled by a porous medium with a transverse sinusoidal injection velocity and heat source
AU - Chauhan Dileep Singh
AU - Kumar Vikas
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2011
VL - 15
IS - 12
SP - 175
EP - 186
PT - Article
AB - This study theoretically analyzes the heat transfer effects in a three  dimensional Couette flow through a composite parallel porous plate channel  partly filled by a porous medium. The flow is three dimensional in the  channel because of the application of a transverse sinusoidal injection  velocity of a particular form at the lower stationary plate. The governing  equations are solved using a perturbation series expansion method. The  effects of various flow parameters such as, Prandtl number (Pr),  suction/injection parameter (λ), permeability of the porous medium (K), heat  source parameter (S), and viscosity ratio parameter (Ф1), are investigated on  temperature distribution in the composite channel and rate of heat transfer  at the upper moving plate and at the fluid-porous medium interface, and  discussed graphically.