Thermal study of fluid flow inside an annular pipe filled with porous media under local thermal non-equilibrium condition

Abdelkrim Bouaffane; Kamel Talbi

doi:10.15282/jmes.13.2.2019.09.0406

Authors

Abdelkrim Bouaffane Laboratoire d’Energétique Appliquée et de Pollution, Département de Génie Mécanique, Faculté des Sciences de la Technologie, Université des Frères Mentouri, Constantine, Algeria Phone: +213696207466
Kamel Talbi Laboratoire d’Energétique Appliquée et de Pollution, Département de Génie Mécanique, Faculté des Sciences de la Technologie, Université des Frères Mentouri, Constantine, Algeria Phone: +213696207466

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15282/jmes.13.2.2019.09.0406

Keywords:

porous medium, forced convection, local thermal non-equilibrium, heat transfer enhancement, Darcy- Brinkman- Forchheimer model

Abstract

The present work involves the thermal numerical simulation of fluid flow inside an annular pipe completely filled porous material. The mathematical model of the energy transport is based on the Local Thermal Non-Equilibrium (LTNE) between the fluid and the solid phases. The governing equations are discretized by the finite volume method. SIMPLE algorithm has been used to solve the set of algebraic discretized coupled equations. This work is divided in two parts. In the first part, the effect of the pertinent dimensionless parameters which govern the study such as Biot number (Bi), solid-fluid thermal conductivity ratio (Rc) and radius ratio (Rr) on the LTNE intensity are analyzed by calculating: the local difference of temperature (LDT), the maximum of the local difference of temperature (LDT_max) and the average of LDT. The results show that the increase of Biot number and the solid-fluid thermal conductivity ratio, and the decrease of radius ratio reduce the LTNE intensity. The intensity of the LTNE in the developing region is greater than that of the fully developed region. In the second part, the convection heat transfer enhancement is studied, the results illustrate that the increase of Biot number and the solid-fluid thermal conductivity ratio, and the decrease of radius ratio represent good factors to ameliorate the rate of the convection heat transfer between the fluid and the inner wall.

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