The effect of porous insert position on the enhanced heat transfer in partially filled channels

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1162-1167

  Shokouhmand, H ^a   Jam, F ^a   Salimpour, M R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Convection; Lattice Boltzmann method; Partially filled; Porous medium

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CHANNEL CONFIGURATION; CHANNEL WALL; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; DARCY NUMBER; ENHANCED HEAT TRANSFER; FLUID-SATURATED POROUS MEDIUM; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; PARALLEL-PLATE CHANNELS; PARTIALLY FILLED; POROUS INSERTS; POROUS MEDIUM; THERMAL PERFORMANCE;

LAMINAR FLOW; MIXED CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 80052161957     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2011.04.027     Document Type: Article

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