Free Convection Heat Transfer over a Vertical Cylinder in a Saturated Porous Medium Using a Local Thermal Non-equilibrium Model
Shakeri, E.N.M.K.M.H.
Transport in Porous Media 93(3): 453-460
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 0169-3913 DOI: 10.1007/s11242-012-9962-7
Accession: 064198295
In this article, free convection heat transfer over a vertical cylinder with variable surface temperature distributions in a porous medium is analyzed. It is assumed that the fluid and solid phases are not in local thermal equilibrium and, therefore, a two-temperature model of heat transfer is applied. The coupled momentum and energy equations are presented and then they are transformed into ordinary differential equations. The similarity equations are solved numerically.