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For improved thermal management of electronic systems, porous fins of functionally graded materials (FGM) have been identified as a viable candidate to enhance cooling. The present study presents an analysis of a convective\u2013radiative porous fin of FGM. For theoretical investigations, the thermal property of the functionally graded material is assumed to follow linear and power-law functions. In this study, we investigated the effects of inhomogeneity index of FGM, convective and radiative variables on the thermal performance of the porous heatsink. The results of the present study show that an increase in the inhomogeneity index of FGM, convective and radiative parameter improves fin efficiency. Moreover, the rate of heat transfer in longitudinal FGM fin increases as \u03b2 increases. The temperature prediction using the Adomian decomposition method is in excellent agreement with other analytical and method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/computation7010019","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,27]],"date-time":"2019-03-27T05:03:12Z","timestamp":1553662992000},"page":"19","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Thermal Prediction of Convective-Radiative Porous Fin Heatsink of Functionally Graded Material Using Adomian Decomposition Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3920-7637","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"George","family":"Oguntala","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Informatics, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP, UK"}]},{"given":"Gbeminiyi","family":"Sobamowo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos 100213, Nigeria"}]},{"given":"Yinusa","family":"Ahmed","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos 100213, Nigeria"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2972-9965","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Raed","family":"Abd-Alhameed","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Informatics, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP, UK"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"790","DOI":"10.1115\/1.1371922","article-title":"Using Porous Fins for Heat Transfer Enhancement","volume":"123","author":"Kiwan","year":"2000","journal-title":"J. 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