Oscillating plate temperature effects on a flow past an infinite vertical porous plate with constant suction and embedded in a porous medium

An approximate solution to the problem of flow of a viscous incompressible dissipative fluid past an infinite vertical porous plate embedded in a poro us medium is presented here. The plate temperature is assumed to be oscilla ting about a constant mean temperature. Mean velocity and mean temperature, the transient velocity and temperature profiles are shown graphically. The mean skin-friction and the mean rate of heat transfer are also shown graph ically. The expressions for the amplitude and the phase of the skin-frictio n and the rate of heat transfer are derived and their numerical values are listed in Tables. The effects of different parameters governing the unstead y flow are discussed.