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Heat flux dispersion in natural convection in porous media

✍ Scribed by Peter Vadasz

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
995 KB
Volume
53
Category
Article
ISSN
0017-9310

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✦ Synopsis

Analytical solutions derived in this paper confirm the experimental and numerical results revealing a widespread dispersion of heat flux data in natural convection in porous media. The weak non-linear method of solution is used to evaluate the heat flux in a porous layer heated from below and subject to weak boundary and domain imperfections. Little attention has been paid so far to the effect that the lower branch of the imperfect bifurcation has on the average heat flux. The results presented in this paper demonstrate the latter effect and explain the reason behind the dispersion of data. The comparison of the results with existing experimental and numerical data confirms the findings. In addition the latter effect is shown to be essential in ones ability to control heat transfer enhancement via natural convection in porous metal foams, for example.

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