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COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER IN CAVITY FILLED WITH SATURATED POROUS MEDIA
Ammar Abdulkadhima,*, Azher Mouhsen Abeda
, Khaled Al-Farhanyb
a Air conditioning and Refrigeration Techniques Engineering Department, Al-Mustaqbal University College, Babylon, 51001, Iraq
b
Department of mechanical engineering, University of Al-Qadisiyah, Al-Qadisiyah,58001, Iraq
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Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer 2018, 11, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.5098/hmt.11.12
Abstract
The conjugate natural convection heat transfer in a partially heated porous enclosure had been studied numerically. The governing dimensionless
equations are solved using finite element method. Classical Darcy model have been used and the considering dimensionless parameters are modified
Rayleigh number (10 ≤ Ra ≤ 10
3), finite wall thickness (0.02 ≤ D ≤ 0.5), thermal conductivity ratio (0.1 ≤ K
r ≤ 10), and the aspect ratio (0.5 ≤ A≤ 10).
The results are presented in terms of streamlines, isotherms and local and average Nusselt number. The results indicate that heat transfer can be
enhanced by increasing the modified Rayleigh number, and thermal conductivity ratio. Wall thickness effects on the heat transfer mechanism had
been studied and it is found that; as the Wall thickness increases, the conduction heat transfer mechanism will be dominated. Also, increasing aspect
ratio will increase the stream function and reduced the heat transfer rate.
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Abdulkadhim, A., Abed, A. M. (2018). COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER IN CAVITY FILLED WITH SATURATED POROUS MEDIA.
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, 11(1), 1–7.