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Non‐darcy forced convective heat transfer in a channel embedded in a non‐newtonian inelastic fluid‐saturated porous medium
Author(s) -
Nakayama A.,
Shenoy A. V.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
the canadian journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1939-019X
pISSN - 0008-4034
DOI - 10.1002/cjce.5450710122
Subject(s) - mechanics , porous medium , darcy number , heat transfer , convective heat transfer , forced convection , non newtonian fluid , thermodynamics , materials science , convection , darcy's law , heat flux , porosity , physics , natural convection , rayleigh number , composite material
The present analysis investigates non‐Darcy forced convective heat transfer in a channel confined by two parallel walls subjected to uniform heat flux in a highly porous medium saturated with a non‐Newtonian power‐law fluid. Extensive numerical integrations have been carried out utilizing the Brinkman‐Forchheimer extension of the Darcy model in order to study the effects of pseudoplasticity, and Brinkman and Forchheimer terms on the heat transfer characteristics.