A modification of a Nusselt number correlation for forced convection in porous media

✍ Scribed by J. Pallares; F.X. Grau

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 299 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0735-1933
• DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2010.07.014

✦ Synopsis

We report numerical simulations of forced convection heat transfer rates of a steady laminar flow in a twodimensional model of porous media to elucidate the differences observed between the numerical predictions of Kuwahara et al. (2001) [Int. J Heat Mass Trans. 44, 1153-1159] and Gamrat et al. (2008) [Int. J Heat Mass Trans. 51, 853-864]. A modification in the correlation given by Kuwahara et al. ( 2001) is proposed to make the results of the three numerical studies comparable and in agreement with the experimental data.