Convection in layered porous media: A comparison of boundary heating methods
Convection in a horizontal, doubly layered porous medium has been investigated numerically. A two-dimensional, time dependent model has been developed to compute heat transfer in a saturated porous medium that is locally heated from either above or below. The primary objective is to ascertain how these modes of heating can be differentiated via an examination of the heat transfer results. Both natural and mixed convection are considered. For mixed convection in which a uniform horizontal flow is assumed to enter the domain, the qualitative relation between the Rayleigh and Peclet numbers is obtained over a large range for each. The effect of the length of the heating zone on the flow structure is also examined. The permeability ratio and the ratio of the thermal conductivity of the two layers is also allowed to vary, thus giving the computing Nusselt numbers a broad range of applicability in geophysical and engineered systems.
- Research Organization:
- 3M Center, Saint Paul, MN (US)
- OSTI ID:
- 20030471
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5th ASME/JSME Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, San Diego, CA (US), 03/14/1999--03/19/1999; Other Information: 1 CD-ROM. Operating system required: Windows i386(tm), i486(tm), Pentium (R) or Pentium Pro, MS Windows 3.1, 95, or NT 3.51, 8 MB RAM, MacIntosh and Power MacIntosh with a 68020 or greater processor, System software version 7.1, 3.5 MB RAM (5 MB for PowerMac) 6 MB available hard-disk space, Unix; PBD: 1999; Related Information: In: Proceedings of the 5th ASME/JSME thermal engineering joint conference, [3600] pages.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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