Effects of Surface Mass Transfer on Free Convection Flow Over Vertical Cylinder Embedded in a Saturated Porous Medium

Abstract

The heat-transfer characteristics for free convection associated with isothermal vertical cylinder with surface mass transfer (blowing or suction) embedded in a saturated porous medium are analyzed. The nonsimilar equations are solved by using a suitable variable transformation and employing an implicit finite difference method. The numerical results for Nusselt number are expressed as functions of the parameters, ξ and γ , which represent the effects of the cylinder curvature and the surface mass transfer, respectively. It is found that the local Nusselt numbers for a vertical cylinder are less sensitive to the surface mass transfer than those for a vertical plate. Blowing of mass decreases the heat transfer coefficient but the suction of mass increases the heat transfer coefficient.