A Note on the Onset of Convection in a Layer of a Porous Medium Saturated by a Non-Newtonian Nanofluid of Power-Law Type

作者：Nield D A^*

来源：Transport in Porous Media, 2011, 87(1): 121-123.

DOI：10.1007/s11242-010-9671-z

• Onset of convection
• Porous medium
• Power-law fluid
• Nanofluid

It is pointed out that the Horton-Rogers-Lapwood problem becomes singular when a Newtonian fluid is replaced by a standard power-law fluid. It is shown how this singularity can be removed. When this is done, the nanofluid effects due to thermophoresis and Brownian motion become independent of the power-law index.

• 出版日期2011-3