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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications
An International Journal of Computation and Methodology
Volume 45, 2004 - Issue 5
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A TRANSIENT STUDY OF COUPLED NATURAL CONVECTION AND RADIATION IN A POROUS VERTICAL CHANNEL USING THE FINITE-VOLUME METHOD

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Pages 451-478 | Received 01 Aug 2003, Accepted 01 Aug 2003, Published online: 17 Aug 2010
 

Abstract

The present article deals with a numerical study of coupled fluid flow and heat transfer by transient natural convection and thermal radiation in a vertical channel opened at both ends and filled with a fluid-saturated porous medium. The bounding walls of the channel are isothermal and gray. In the present study we suppose the validity of the Darcy law and of the local thermal equilibrium assumption. The radiative transfer equation (RTE) is solved by the finite-volume method (FVM). The net radiative heat flux as well as its divergence is also calculated using the same method. The sensitivity of the fluid flow and the heat transfer to different controlling parameters, namely the conduction-radiation parameter or Planck number or Stark number, N, the optical thickness, τ D , and the wall emissivity, ε, are addressed. The results indicate that the controlling parameters of the problems, namely, N , τ D , and ε, have significant effects on the flow and thermal fields and on the transient process of heating or cooling of the medium. It has also been shown that the volumetric flow rate, q v , and the convected heat flux at the channel's exit increase when N is decreased and/or τ D and ε are increased.

One of the authors (K. S.) would like to express his gratitude to Dr. P. Ben Abdallah (LET, ENSMA, Poitiers, France) for reviewing this article. The authors would also like to express their deep gratitude to the reviewers for their invaluable and fruitful comments for the improvement of the present investigation.

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