Natural convection about two-dimensional bodies with uniform surface heat flux in a porous medium (Q1092758)

The natural convection boundary-layer flow on horizontal circular cylinders of arbitrary shape in a saturated porous medium is considered when a uniform heat flux boundary condition is applied on the cylinder. A series expansion is derived which is applicable to cylinders of general shape. The case of a horizontal circular cylinder is then considered in detail. A finite-difference solution of this problem is obtained and compared with a simple approximate solution given by the series expansion, and these are found to be in good agreement over the lower half of the cylinder.