Reply to comments on "Non-Darcian Forced Convection Flow of Viscous Dissipating Fluid over a Flat Plate Embedded in a Porous Medium"


AYDIN O., Kaya A.

TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA, vol.73, no.2, pp.191-193, 2008 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Editorial Material
  • Volume: 73 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2008
  • Doi Number: 10.1007/s11242-007-9200-x
  • Journal Name: TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.191-193
  • Karadeniz Technical University Affiliated: No

Abstract

In this note, we reply to the comments by Rees and Magyari (2007) on our article (Aydin and Kaya 2007). They mainly stated that the thermal boundary conditions we defined at the edge of the boundary layer were incompatible with the energy equation. This is questionable and therefore we will discuss it below. They disclosed that our results were in error. However, this is quite misleading. Scientifically, they cannot reach such a conclusion without comparing our results with what they thought to be correct. In fact, this misleading and unproven statement will be shown not to be correct in the following.