NATURAL-CONVECTION IN A FINITE WALL RECTANGULAR CAVITY FILLED WITH AN ANISOTROPIC POROUS-MEDIUM

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CHANG, WJ [1 ]
LIN, HC [1 ]
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[1] CHUNG SHAN INST SCI TECHNOL,AERONAUT RES LAB,TAICHUNG,TAIWAN
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10.1016/0017-9310(94)90101-5
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O414.1 [热力学];
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A numerical study has been made to analyze the wall conduction effect on the natural convection in an anisotropic fluid-saturated porous medium filled in a rectangular cavity. The governing conservation equations are solved by a SIMPLE algorithm. The numerical results indicate that the anisotropic permeability influences the flow field and heat transfer rate significantly. A critical Value of the anisotropic thermal diffusivity ratio may exist such that the Nusselt number reaches a minimum. This critical value decreases with increasing the value of the anisotropic permeability ratio. Moreover, wall conductance effect can lead to large changes in the Nusselt numbers.
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