Natural convection flow and heat transfer between a fluid layer and a porous layer inside a rectangular enclosure

Journal Article · Fri May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1987 · Journal of Heat Transfer (Transactions of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), Series C); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1115/1.3248089· OSTI ID:6018773

Beckermann, C; Ramadhyani, S; Viskanta, R ^[1]

---

1. Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

A numerical and experimental study is performed to analyze the steady-state natural convection fluid flow and heat transfer in a vertical rectangular enclosure that is partially filled with a vertical layer of a fluid-saturated porous medium. The flow in the porous layer is modeled utilizing the Brinkman-Forchheimer-extended Darcy equations. The numerical model is verified by conducting a number of experiments, with spherical glass beads as the porous medium and water and glycerin as the fluids, in rectangular test cells. The agreement between the flow visualization results and temperature measurements and the numerical model is, in general, good. It is found that the amount of fluid penetrating from the fluid region into the porous layer depends strongly on the Darcy (Da) and Rayleigh (Ra) numbers. For a relatively low product of Ra {times} Da, the flow takes place primarily in the fluid layers, and heat transfer in the porous layer is by conduction only. On other hand, fluid penetrating into a relatively highly permeable porous layer has a significant impact on the natural convection flow patterns in the entire enclosure.

• OSTI ID: 6018773
• Journal Information: Journal of Heat Transfer (Transactions of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), Series C); (United States), Journal Name: Journal of Heat Transfer (Transactions of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), Series C); (United States) Vol. 109:2; ISSN 0022-1481; ISSN JHTRA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
420400* -- Engineering-- Heat Transfer & Fluid Flow
BOX MODELS
CALCULATION METHODS
CAVITIES
CONVECTION
DATA
ENERGY TRANSFER
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FLUIDS
HEAT TRANSFER
INFORMATION
MASS TRANSFER
MATERIALS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MATHEMATICS
NATURAL CONVECTION
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
NUMERICAL DATA
POROUS MATERIALS