Author(s)

Dieudonné Kouke^1*, Julien Yovogan^1,2

¹Laboratoire d’Energétique et de Mécanique Appliquées, LEMA-EPAC, Université d’Abomey Calavi, Cotonou, Bénin.
²Université Nationale des Sciences Technologies, Ingénierie et Mathématiques, Abomey, Bénin.

In this work, an analytical study is carried out on double-diffusive natural convection through a horizontal anisotropic porous layer saturated with a non-Newtonian fluid by using the Darcy model with the Boussinesq approximations. The horizontal walls of the system are subject to vertical uniform fluxes of heat and mass, whereas the vertical walls are assumed to be adiabatic and impermeable. The Soret effect is taken into consideration. Based on parallel flow approximation theory, the problem is solved in the limit of a thin layer and documented the effects of the physical parameters describing this investigation.

Soret Number, Heat and Mass Transfer, Non-Newtonian Fluid, Isotropy, Ani-sotropy, Supercritical Rayleigh Number

Kouke, D. and Yovogan, J. (2023) Influence of Anisotropic Permeability and Soret Effect on the Convective Heat and Mass Transfer through a Porous Cavity Saturated by a Non-Newtonian Fluid. Engineering, 15, 843-866. doi: 10.4236/eng.2023.1512059.