Simulation of conjugate radiation-forced convection heat transfer in a porous medium using the lattice Boltzmann method

Kazemian, Y., Rashidi, S., Esfahani, J. A. and Karimi, N. (2019) Simulation of conjugate radiation-forced convection heat transfer in a porous medium using the lattice Boltzmann method. Meccanica, 54(3), pp. 505-524. (doi: 10.1007/s11012-019-00967-8)

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Abstract

In this paper, a lattice Boltzmann method is employed to simulate the conjugate radiation–forced convection heat transfer in a porous medium. The absorbing, emitting, and scattering phenomena are fully included in the model. The effects of different parameters of a silicon carbide porous medium including porosity, pore size, conduction–radiation ratio, extinction coefficient and kinematic viscosity ratio on the temperature and velocity distributions are investigated. The convergence times of modified and regular LBMs for this problem are 15 s and 94 s, respectively, indicating a considerable reduction in the solution time through using the modified LBM. Further, the thermal plume formed behind the porous cylinder elongates as the porosity and pore size increase. This result reveals that the thermal penetration of the porous cylinder increases with increasing the porosity and pore size. Finally, the mean temperature at the channel output increases by about 22% as the extinction coefficient of fluid increases in the range of 0–0.03.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Karimi, Dr Nader
Authors: Kazemian, Y., Rashidi, S., Esfahani, J. A., and Karimi, N.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Systems Power and Energy
Journal Name:Meccanica
Publisher:Springer
ISSN:0025-6455
ISSN (Online):1572-9648
Published Online:09 March 2019
Copyright Holders:Copyright © Springer Nature B.V. 2019
First Published:First published in Meccanica
Publisher Policy:Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy

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