Flow and heat transfer inside porous stack: Steady state problem

A non-Darcy model for the momentum equation, along with the energy equation, are used to calculate the forced convection in a plane channel filled with a fluid-saturated porous medium. The channel walls are assumed to be finite in thickness. Conduction heat transfer inside the channel walls is also accounted and the full problem is treated as a conjugate heat transfer problem. Governing equations are simplified with reasonable approximations and solved analytically to get expressions for velocity, temperature, and heat transfer distributions inside the channel. (C) 2004 Elsevier Science Ltd.