Closure to Discussion: “A Numerical Study of Thermal Dispersion in Porous Media” (Kuwahara, F., Nakayama, A., and Koyama, H., 1996, ASME J. Heat Transfer, 118, pp. 756–761) and “Numerical Determination of Thermal Dispersion Coefficients Using a Periodic Porous Structure” (Kuwahara, F., and Nakayama, A., 1999, ASME J. Heat Transfer, 121, pp. 160–163)

2004 ◽  
Vol 126 (6) ◽  
pp. 1062-1062 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Nakayama ◽  
F. Kuwahara
2013 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Türküler Özgümüş ◽  
Moghtada Mobedi ◽  
Ünver Özkol ◽  
Akira Nakayama

Thermal dispersion is an important topic in the convective heat transfer in porous media. In order to determine the heat transfer in a packed bed, the effective thermal conductivity including both stagnant and dispersion thermal conductivities should be known. Several theoretical and experimental studies have been performed on the determination of the effective thermal conductivity. The aim of this study is to review the experimental studies done on the determination of the effective thermal conductivity of the packed beds. In this study, firstly brief information on the definition of the thermal dispersion is presented and then the reported experimental studies on the determination of the effective thermal conductivity are summarized and compared. The reported experimental methods are classified into three groups: (1) heat addition/removal at the lateral boundaries, (2) heat addition at the inlet/outlet boundary, (3) heat addition inside the bed. For each performed study, the experimental details, methods, obtained results, and suggested correlations for the determination of the effective thermal conductivity are presented. The similarities and differences between experimental methods and reported studies are shown by tables. Comparison of the correlations for the effective thermal conductivity is made by using figures and the results of the studies are discussed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1 Part B) ◽  
pp. 467-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Habib-Olah Sayehvand ◽  
Sakene Yari ◽  
Parsa Basiri

Staggered arrangement is one of the common configurations in heat exchangers that make better mixing of flow and heat transfer augmentation than other arrangements. In this paper forced convection heat transfer over three isothermal circular cylinders in staggered configuration in isotropic packed bed was investigated. In this work laminar 2-D incompressible steady-state equations of momentum and energy were solved numerically by finite volume method. Simulation was done in three Reynolds numbers of 80, 120, and 200. The results indicate that, using porous medium the Nusselt number enhanced considerably for any of cylinders and it presents thin temperature contours for them. Also is shown that by increasing Reynolds number, the heat transfer increased in both channel but the growth rate of it in porous media is larger. In addition, results of simulation in porous channel show that with increasing Peclet number, heat transfer increased logarithmically.


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