Analytical Solution of Forced Convection in a Duct of Rectangular Cross Section Saturated by a Porous Medium

2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (6) ◽  
pp. 596-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamel Hooman ◽  
Ali A. Merrikh

A theoretical analysis is presented to investigate thermally and hydrodynamically fully developed forced convection in a duct of rectangular cross section filled with a hyper-porous medium. The Darcy-Brinkman model was adopted in the present analysis. A Fourier series type solution is applied to obtain the exact velocity and temperature distribution within the duct. The case of uniform heat flux on the walls, i.e., the H boundary condition in the terminology of Kays and Crawford (1993, Convective Heat and Mass Transfer, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill, NY), is treated. Values of the Nusselt number and the friction factor as a function of the aspect ratio, the Darcy number, and the viscosity ratio are reported.

2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Moein Rassoulinejad-Mousavi ◽  
Saeid Abbasbandy

This paper provides a fresh analytical solution for fully developed forced convection through a Darcy–Brinkman–Forchheimer porous medium imbedded inside a circular tube, with imposed uniform heat flux at walls. A spectral homotopy analysis method is applied to present a solution which spans a wide range of the main parameters (the Darcy number (Da), viscosity ratio (M), and Forchheimer number (F)). The analytical results are compared with data available in the literature, and excellent agreement is found. The paper is capable of addressing the problem in a general porous medium for which both inertial and boundary-friction effects affect the flow and heat transfer physics. In order to serve this aim, the influence of Da, M, and F on the dimensionless velocity and temperature profiles, as well as Nusselt number, are investigated.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oktay Çiçek ◽  
A. Cihat Baytaş

Purpose The purpose of this study is to numerically investigate heat transfer and entropy generation between airframe and cabin-cargo departments in an aircraft. The conjugate forced convection and entropy generation in a cylindrical cavity within air channel partly filled with porous insulation material as simplified geometry for airframe and cabin-cargo departments are considered under local thermal non-equilibrium condition. Design/methodology/approach The non-dimensional governing equations for fluid and porous media discretized by finite volume method are solved using the SIMPLE algorithm with pressure and velocity correction. Findings The effects of the following parameters on the problem are investigated; Reynolds number, Darcy number, the size of inlet and exit cross-section, thermal conductivity ratio for solid and fluid phases, angle between the vertical symmetry axis and the end of channel wall exit and the gap between adiabatic channel wall and horizontal adiabatic wall separating cabin and cargo sections. Originality/value This paper can provide a basic perspective and framework for thermal design between the fuselage and cabin-cargo sections. The minimum total entropy generation number is calculated for various Reynolds numbers and thermal conductivity ratios. It is observed that the channel wall temperature increases for high Reynolds number, low Darcy number, narrower exit cross-section and wider the gap between channel wall and horizontal.


2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mubbashar Nazeer ◽  
N. Ali ◽  
Tariq Javed

The present article explores the effects of moving lid on the forced convection flow of micropolar fluid inside a right-angle triangular cavity saturated with porous medium. The base and hypotenuse or inclined sides of the cavity are maintained at constant temperatures, while the vertical side of the enclosure is adiabatic and moving with constant velocity in upward or downward direction. The flow equations are simulated by using the robust finite element numerical technique. The pressure term from the momentum equations is eliminated by using the penalty parameter. For a consistent solution, the value of the penalty parameter is selected as 107. The simulations are performed for the cases based on the direction of moving lid. The numerical outcomes are shown in terms of streamlines, temperature contours, and local and average Nusselt numbers for sundry parameters, such as micropolar parameter, Reynolds number, Richardson number, Darcy number, Hartmann number, and Prandtl number. It is observed that the shape of the inner circulating cell is elliptic when the lid is moving in the upward direction and fluid is clear (Newtonian fluid). It is also found that average Nusselt number in both cases increases with increasing Prandtl number, Richardson number, micropolar parameter, and Darcy number, whereas it decreases with increasing Hartmann number. Further, it achieves a maximum when the lid is moving in the downward direction, regardless of the choice of involved parameters. The numerical code is also validated with previous published results. The investigation of the current study is beneficial in porous heat exchangers, construction of triangular-shaped solar collectors, rigid crystal, polymeric fluid transport, etc.


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