Research Journal of Applied Sciences

Temperature Distribution of an Arrheniusly Reacting Unsteady Flow Through a Porous Medium with Variable Permeability

A.W. Ogunsola and R.O Ayeni

Abstract: We consider the energy equation of an Arrheniusly reacting flow through a porous medium with variable permeability. A self similar solution was obtained for the unsteady case of the flow using shooting numerical method. We report the effects of the coefficient of the variable permeability and the Frank-Kamenetskii parameter on the temperature field of the system.