A Local Thermal Non-Equilibrium Analysis of Fully Developed Forced Convective Flow in a Tube Filled with a Porous Medium

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 237-249

  Yang, C ^a,b   Ando, K ^c   Nakayama, A ^a,d  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Nitto Kogyo Corporation   (Japan)

^d WUHAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Conductivity; Metal foam; Porous media; Thermal non equilibrium

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT HEAT FLUX; CONVECTIVE FLOW; ENERGY EQUATION; EXACT SOLUTION; LOCAL THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM; LOCAL THERMAL NON-EQUILIBRIUM; METAL FOAM; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLID PHASIS; SOLID-PHASE; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; THERMAL DISPERSION; THERMAL NON-EQUILIBRIUM;

FOAMS; HEAT FLUX; METALS; MIXED CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ALUMINUM; CONVECTION; DISPERSION; HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 79961211409     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9766-1     Document Type: Article

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