1Department of Mathematics, D.N.(P.G.) College, Meerut, India
2Department of Applied Sciences, Accurate Institute of Management & Technology, Gr. Noida, India
3Department of Mathematics, P.D.M. College of Engineering, Bahadurgarh, (Haryana), India
Online published on 5 December, 2015.
In this paper, the onset of convection in horizontal layer of porous medium saturated by a nanofluid has been studied analytically incorporating the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis. Here the study is extended to the Brinkman model by introducing an additional parameter Darcy number.
Nanoparticles, Nanofluid, Anisotropic Porous medium and Darcy number, Developmental indicators, Composite index, Potential targets, Model districts