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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 691802, 14 pages doi:10.1155/2012/691802 Research Article Effect of Variable Viscosity on Vortex Instability of Non-Darcy Mixed Convection Boundary Layer Flow Adjacent to a Nonisothermal Horizontal Surface in a Porous Medium A. M. Elaiw,1, 2 A. A. Bakr,3 M. A. Alghamdi,1 and F. S. Ibrahim4 1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia 2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Assiut 71511, Egypt 3 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science for Girls, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia 4 Department of Mathematics, University Collage in Makkah, Umm-Alqura University, Saudi Arabia Correspondence should be addressed to A. M. Elaiw, a m elaiw@ Received 6 July 2011; Accepted 11 November 2011 Academic Editor: Muhammad R. Hajj Copyright q 2012 A. M. Elaiw et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We study the effect of variable viscosity on the flow and vortex instability for non-Darcy mixed convection boundary layer flow on a nonisothermal horizontal plat surface in a saturated porous medium. The variation of viscosity is expressed as an exponential function of temperature. The analysis of the disturbance flow is based on linear stability theory. The base flow equations and the resulting eigenvalue problem are solved using finite difference schemes. It is found that the variable viscosity effect enhances the heat transfer rate and destabilizes the flow for liquid heating, while the opposite trend is t