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A numerical study of the steady conjugate free convection over a vertical slender, hollow circular cylinder with the inner surface at a constant temperature and embedded in a porous medium is reported. The governing boundary layer equations for the fluid-saturated porous medium over the cylinder along with the one-dimensional heat conduction equation for the cylinder are cast into dimensionless form, by using a non-similarity transformation. The resulting non-similarity equations with their corresponding boundary conditions are solved by using the Keller box method. Emphasis is placed on the effects caused by the wall conduction parameter, p, and calculations have covered a wide range of this parameter. Heat transfer results including the temperature profiles, the interface temperature profiles and the local Nusselt number are presented.
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Received on 17 November 1997
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Pop, I., Na, TY. Conjugate free convection over a vertical slender hollow cylinder embedded in a porous medium. Heat and Mass Transfer 36, 375–379 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002310000124
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002310000124