ISSN Online: 2377-424X
ISBN Print: 0-85295-345-3
International Heat Transfer Conference 10
NATURAL CONVECTION OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS IN AN INCLINED POROUS LAYER
Аннотация
Thermally driven flow in a thin, inclined,
rectangular cavity filled with a non-Newtonian fluid
saturated porous medium is considered. A constant
heat flux is applied for heating and cooling the two
side walls of the layer while the other two walls are
insulated. The problem is solved on the basis of a
modified Darcy equation. In the limit of a thin layer,
using a parallel flow approximation and an integral
form of the energy equation, the governing equations
are reduced to one ordinary differential equation. A
good agreement is found between the parallel flow
analysis and the numerical simulation.