A closure model for transient heat conduction in porous media
- Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Kowloon (Hong Kong). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Equations governing the transient heat conduction in porous materials consisting of solids and fluids of different thermal properties were derived with a volumetric average scheme under the assumption of nonthermal equilibrium. The derivation leads to a macroscopic two-equation system which requires the closure modeling of new unknown terms due to interfacial transport, namely, the tortuosity term and the interfacial heat transfer term. Closure relations were obtained from the microscopic equations for temperature fluctuation under quasi-steady assumption. The closure coefficients appeared in the closure relations then depend on the media geometry as well as thermal properties. To demonstrate these dependencies, the closure coefficient for the thermal tortuosity is evaluated based on the effective stagnant thermal conductivity model proposed by Hsu et al. (1995) for periodically packed cubes, and the coefficient for interfacial heat transfer based on a quasi-steady heat conduction of dispersed spheres immersed in fluids. The salient features as well as the applicability and limitation of the newly proposed transient heat conduction model were discussed.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 687536
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Heat Transfer, Journal Name: Journal of Heat Transfer Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 121; ISSN 0022-1481; ISSN JHTRAO
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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