On the concave and convex solutions of a mixed convection boundary layer approximation in a porous medium

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Abstract: In this paper we investigate the similarity solutions of a plane mixed convection boundary layer flow near a semi-vertical plate, with a prescribed power law function of the distance from the leading edge for the temperature, that is embedded in a porous medium. We show the existence and uniqueness of convex and concave solutions for positive values of the power law exponent.


The authors consider the nonlinear autonomous differential equation \[ f+(1+\lambda) ff+ 2\lambda(1- f')f'= 0\quad\text{on }[0,\infty)\tag{1} \] with the boundary conditions \[ f(0)=\alpha,\quad f'(0)=\beta\quad\text{and }f'(\infty)= 1,\tag{2} \] where \(\beta> 0\) and \(f(\infty):=\lim_{t\to\infty} f'(t)\). The authors interested in the case \(\lambda> 0\), and prove existence and uniqueness of the solution of (1) and (2) whose second derivative does not vanish.




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