Hamid Maidat and Khedidja Bouhadef and Djamel Eddine Ameziani and Azzedine Abdedou
Study of Mixed Convection in a Vertical Channel Filled with a Reactive Porous Medium in the Absence of Local Thermal Equilibrium
1264 - 1267
2015
9
7
International Journal of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10001939
https://publications.waset.org/vol/103
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
This work consists of a numerical simulation of
convective heat transfer in a vertical plane channel filled with a heat
generating porous medium, in the absence of local thermal
equilibrium. The walls are maintained to a constant temperature and
the inlet velocity is uniform. The dynamic range is described by the
DarcyBrinkman model and the thermal field by two energy
equations model. A dimensionless formulation is developed for
performing a parametric study based on certain dimensionless groups
such as, the Biot interstitial number, the thermal conductivity ratio
and the volumetric heat generation, q &039;&039;&039;. The governing equations are
solved using the finite volume method, gave rise to a multitude of
results concerning in particular the thermal field in the porous
channel and the existence or not of the local thermal equilibrium.
Open Science Index 103, 2015