Effect of Darcy, Peclet Number and Conductivity Ratio on Local Thermal Non-Equilibrium Flow through Saturated Porous Media

This paper is concerned with the fluid flow and heat transfer between two parallel plate filled with a saturated porous medium under non-equilibrium condition. A two-equation model is utilized to represent the fluid and solid energy transport. Numerical Finite Volume Method has been developed for solving coupled energy equation and the Brinkman equation is used for momentum equation. The effect of suitable non-dimensional parameters as Darcy number, conductivity ratio, Heat generation in solid phase and Peclet number has been studied thoroughly.

Keywords:

Heat Transfer , Porous Media , Non-Thermal equilibrium , Numerical solution