Lattice Boltzmann Numerical Simulation of Heat-Flow Coupling in a Square Cavity Filled with Porous Media with Partially Colding Wall Layout

Abstract

Abstract: Lattice Boltzmann method is used to simulate natural convection in a cavity fill with porous medium under REV scale. Effects of Rayleigh number, Darcy number and porosity on heat transfer and flow in a square enclosure were studied. It is found that Darcy number has a great influence on fluid flow pattern in the cavity. Increasing Rayleigh number,Darcy number, and porosity enhance the heat dissipation effect. Effect of porosity on average Nusselt number is related to Darcy number. As Darcy number is small, porosity has little effect on average Nusselt number. As Darcy number is great, porosity has a great influence on average Nusselt number. As cold source is placed above the wall, average Nusselt number changes dramatically with the increase of Rayleigh number. Under high Rayleigh number condition, cooling effect is improved by arranging the cold source above the boundory.Among the six schemes, Case 6 has the best heat dissipation effect.

Key words: LBM, porous media, natural convection, Nusselt number, partially colding wall

CLC Number:

TB61⁺1

WAN Qikun, LUO Song, SHANG Wenqiang, ZHANG Ying, LIU Haotian, ZHU Baojie. Lattice Boltzmann Numerical Simulation of Heat-Flow Coupling in a Square Cavity Filled with Porous Media with Partially Colding Wall Layout[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS, 2020, 37(4): 431-438.

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