Transport in Porous Media, Vol.53, No.3, 347-355, 2003
The development of the asymptotic viscous dissipation profile in a vertical free convective boundary layer flow in a porous medium
The effect of viscous dissipation on the development of the boundary layer flow from a cold vertical surface embedded in a Darcian porous medium is investigated. It is found that the flow evolves gradually from the classical Cheng - Minkowycz form to the recently discovered asymptotic dissipation profile which is a parallel flow.