scholarly journals Single Phase Model on Heat Diffusion Process in Saturated Porous Media due to Hot-Water Seepage Flow

1992 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 409-416
Author(s):  
Morihiro HARADA ◽  
Fusetsu TAKAGI ◽  
Yoichi SUGIYAMA
2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Nield ◽  
A. V. Kuznetsov

This note deals with three main themes. The first is a discussion of the early literature on convection in porous media. The second is a brief overview of current analytical modeling of single-phase convection in saturated porous media and in composite fluid/porous-medium domains. The third is a brief discussion of some pertinent recent studies involving nanofluids, cellular porous materials, bidisperse and tridisperse porous media.


In this paper we obtain an analytical solution that describes the effect of seepage flow on the freezing and thawing of saturated porous media. This solution is obtained by using techniques from complex variable theory. Results are presented to show how fluid flow effects the shape and growth rates of frozen regions embedded in the porous media. The effect of a heat sink is included for both single and multiple frozen regions. Examples are presented to illustrate the effect of this ground water flow on the thawing of arctic permafrost with and without the presence of perma­frost protection devices.


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