The Natural Convection in Horizontal Porous Layer with Vertical or Horizontal Throughflow

수직$\cdot$수평 관통류를 갖는 수평 다공층에서 자연대류 연구

  • 서석진 (전남대학교 기계공학과 대학원) ;
  • 박찬국 (전남대학교 기계공학과)
  • Published : 1998.10.01

Abstract

The effect of vertical or horizontal throughflow on natural convection in horizontal porous layer was investigated. The computations were performed by employing Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer equation to consider the effect of inertia and viscous effect. The patterns of streamlines and isotherms are observed by changing the strength of throughflow. The vertical throughflow stabilizes the natural convection in porous layer. It also disturbs the developing vertical and horizontal velocity component of natural convection cell and increases the critical modified Rayleigh number. The horizontal throughflow influences the stabilization of natural convection in porous layer much more than the vertical throughflow. And it changes a stable convection into a oscillatory convection.

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