ISSN Online: 2377-424X
ISBN Print: 0-85295-345-3
International Heat Transfer Conference 10
NON - DARCY NATURAL CONVECTION IN A POROUS CAVITY WITH CONSTANT HEAT FLUX ON ONE VERTICAL WALL
Аннотация
A numerical investigation of natural convection in a vertical porous layer with one of the vertical walls
maintained at a uniform heat flux has been carried out. The present model includes the Brinkman term and also the
inertia term in addition to the Darcy resistance term. Investigations are first carried out in the Darcy regime
to validate the scheme. The results are in excellent agreement with the available published results. The scheme is then applied to non Darcy regime to study the influence of Ra and Da as separate parameters. For the first time a correlation has been proposed in the
non-Darcy regime for a square cavity, without combining Ra and Da as a single parameter.