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INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS IN HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER
卷 33, 期 10, 页码 1179-1189出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2006.08.004
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porous medium; natural convection; power law fluid
A numerical study of non-Darcy natural convection in a porous enclosure saturated with a power-law fluid is presented. Hydrodynamic and beat transfer results are reported for the configuration in which the enclosure is heated from a side-wall while the horizontal walls are insulated. The flow in the porous medium is modeled using the modified Brinkman-Forchheimer-extended Darcy model for power-law fluids, which accounts for both inertia and boundary effects. The results indicate that when the power law index is decreased, the circulation within the enclosure increases leading to a higher Nusselt number and these effects are enhanced as the Darcy number is increased. Consequently as the power law index decreases, the onset of the transitions from Darcy regime to Darcy-Forchheimer-Brinkman regime to asymptotic convection (boundary layer) regime shift to higher corresponding values of the Darcy number. An increase in Rayleigh number produces similar effects as a decrease in power law index. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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