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Boundary Layer Flow Past a Stretching Surface in a Porous Medium Saturated by a Nanofluid: Brinkman- Forchheimer Model 1 2 Waqar A. Khan *, Ioan M. Pop 1 Department of Engineering Sciences, PN Engineering College, National University of Sciences and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan, 2 Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cluj, Cluj, Romania Abstract In this study, the steady forced convection flow and heat transfer due to an impermeable stretching surface in a porous medium saturated with a nanofluid are investigated numerically. The Brinkman-Forchheimer model is used for the momentum equations (porous medium), whereas, Bongiorno’s model is used for the nanofluid. Uniform temperature and nanofluid volume fraction are assumed at the surface. The boundary layer equations are transformed to ordinary differential equations in terms of the governing parameters including Prandtl and Lewis numbers, viscosity ratio, porous medium, Brownian motion and thermophoresis parameters. Numerical results for the velocity, temperature and concentration profiles, as well as for the reduced Nusselt and Sherwood numbers are obtained and presented graphically. Citation: Khan WA, Pop IM (2012) Boundary Layer Flow Past a Stretching Surface in a Porous Medium Saturated by a Nanofluid: Brinkman-Forchheimer Model. PLoS ONE 7(10): e47031. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047031 Editor: Nikolai Lebedev, US Naval Reseach Laboratory, United States of America Received June 2, 2012; Accepted September 7, 2012; Published October 15, 2012 Copyright: 2012 Khan, Pop. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided t