Numerical Study on Convective Heat Transfer within a Vertical Annular Porous Material

다공성 물질의 환형수직원통내에서의 자연대류 열전달 수치해석

Numerical solutions for two-dimensional, steady, free convection are presented for a cylinder filled with saturated porous media. An annulus is bounded by inner wall with constant heat flux and two adiabatic horizontal walls with outer wall isothermally cooled. Governing equations are numerically solved for the range of Aspect Ratio 1 to 20, Radius Ratio, 1 to 20, and Rayleigh number, 50 to $10^4$ by Finite Difference method utilizing upwind scheme. Results are presented in terms of stream lines and isotherms, temperature distributions and local Nusselt numbers at the heated wall. Average Nusselt numbers are also presented for the comparisons.