Convective heat transfer in axisymmetric porous bodies. (English) Zbl 0860.76086

Rajamani, Rajesh; Srinivas, C.; Nithiarasu, P.; Seetharamu, K. N.

Int. J. Numer. Methods Heat Fluid Flow 5, No. 9, 829-837 (1995).

Summary: A finite element method employing Galerkin’s approach is developed to analyze free convection heat transfer in axisymmetric fluid saturated porous bodies. The method is used to study the effect of aspect ratio and radius ratio on Nusselt number in the case of a porous cylindrical annulus. Two cases of isothermal and convective boundary conditions are considered. The Nusselt number is always found to increase with radius ratio and Rayleigh number. It exhibits a maximum when the aspect ratio is around unity; maximum shifts towards lesser aspect ratios as Rayleigh number increases. Results are compared with those in the literature, wherever available, and the agreement is found to be good.

MSC:

76R10	Free convection
76S05	Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage
76M10	Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics
80A20	Heat and mass transfer, heat flow (MSC2010)

Keywords:

Galerkin’s approach; cylindrical annulus

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