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Natural Convection in a Wavy Enclosure Filled with Porous Media
ZENG Min, WANG Gang, XIE Gongnan, CHEN Qiuyang, WANG Qiuwang
CHINESE JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS    2008, 25 (4): 445-449.  
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We study heat transfer and fluid flow in a complex enclosure fiLled with porous media, with SIMPLEC (Semi-Implicit Method for Pressure Linked Equations Consistent) algorithm in curvilinear coordinates. The upper and lower walls of the enclosure are horizontal and adiabatic. The vertical wall forms cosine curve and is kept at a constant temperature. Governing equations are discretized with a finite-volume method on body-fitted coLlocated grids. Brinkman-extended-Darey model and local thermal non-equilibrium model are used to solve momentum and energy equations. Effects of parameters, such as Rayleigh numbers, Darey numbers and porosity, on heat transfer and fluid flow are studied. It is shown that Rayleigh numbers and Darey numbers have significant effect while porosity is negligible. There exists an optimal aspect ratio to make the heat transfer rate maximum.
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