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TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA
Volume 104, Issue 3, Pages 521-535Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-014-0346-z
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Spherical annulus; Porous media; Natural convection; Numerical solution; Property variation
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The present study reports results of numerical investigation of natural convection in a spherical annulus filled with gas saturated porous medium. Boussinesq approximation has been relaxed considering variation of density, viscosity, and thermal conductivity of the gas with temperature. The momentum and energy equation along with boundary condition and property variation equations are solved by employing successive accelerated replacement scheme. There exists a reference parameter (q = 0.4) at which if thermo physical properties are evaluated, the average Nusselt number values for variable properties and constant properties are nearly same. Also, the effect of variable properties is negligible for temperature difference ratio, theta* < 0.1.
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