TY - JOUR
T1 - Onset of convection in a porous medium with internal heat generation and downward flow
AU - Hadim, Abdelhamid
AU - Burmeistert, Louis C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., 1987.All rights reserved.
PY - 1988
Y1 - 1988
N2 - The criteria for the onset of natural convection in a fluid-saturated porous medium with a distributed heat source from absorbed solar radiation and an externally imposed downward flow of the fluid are determined. The Brinkman-extended Darcy formulation is used in the equations of motion. Linear stability analysis is performed on the continuity, momentum, and energy equations and the resulting linearized equations are solved using a Galerkin method. The stability criteria so obtained are given in terms of the internal and external Rayleigh numbers, porous medium permeability and extinction coefficient, and Peclet number of the imposed downward flow. The predicted stability criteria in the limiting cases of no downward flow and no heat generation are in agreement with those obtained by others. These results can be applied to the evaluation of a possible improved solar pond design, an end that motivated this study.
AB - The criteria for the onset of natural convection in a fluid-saturated porous medium with a distributed heat source from absorbed solar radiation and an externally imposed downward flow of the fluid are determined. The Brinkman-extended Darcy formulation is used in the equations of motion. Linear stability analysis is performed on the continuity, momentum, and energy equations and the resulting linearized equations are solved using a Galerkin method. The stability criteria so obtained are given in terms of the internal and external Rayleigh numbers, porous medium permeability and extinction coefficient, and Peclet number of the imposed downward flow. The predicted stability criteria in the limiting cases of no downward flow and no heat generation are in agreement with those obtained by others. These results can be applied to the evaluation of a possible improved solar pond design, an end that motivated this study.
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U2 - 10.2514/3.110
DO - 10.2514/3.110
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85003272680
SN - 0887-8722
VL - 2
SP - 343
EP - 351
JO - Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer
JF - Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer
IS - 4
ER -