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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications
An International Journal of Computation and Methodology
Volume 68, 2015 - Issue 12
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Original Articles

Numerical Simulation of Natural Convection in a Porous Cavity with Linearly Temperature Distributions Under the Local Thermal Nonequilibrium Condition

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Pages 1394-1415 | Received 09 Feb 2015, Accepted 17 Apr 2015, Published online: 12 Jul 2015
 

Abstract

A numerical investigation of the natural convection heat transfer in a rectangular cavity filled with a heat-generating porous medium by adopting the local thermal nonequilibrium (LTNE) model is reported in this paper. The top and bottom walls of the enclosure are adiabatic, the left wall is linearly cooled, and the right wall is cooled by a linear or uniform temperature profile. The results show that the isotherms for the fluid and solid phases become similar with the increase of the interphase heat transfer coefficient H; the increasing heat transfer between the two phases brings their temperatures closer to each other and thus the solid and fluid phases are in a state of the thermal equilibrium at higher values of H. For case A, the interphase heat transfer coefficient has little influence on the heat transfer rate of the solid phase of the porous cavity and the heat transfer profile of the solid phase (Nusy) is symmetrical with respect to the center point of line Y = 0.5. For case B, the interphase heat transfer coefficient H has a significant effect on that at the right wall, and the total heat transfer of the heat-generating porous cavity is implemented by the right-side wall. The total heat transfer rate Q of case B is higher than that of case A at a high thermal conductivity ratio γ (γ = 1, 10).

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