Convection in a saturated Darcy porous medium with an exothermic chemical surface reaction and Soret effect

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
pp. 1331-1335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola L. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Surface Reaction ◽  
Soret Effect ◽  
Chemical Surface

scholarly journals Thermosolutal Convection in a Porous Medium Cavity Subjected to Heat and Mass Flux: A Discrete Fracture Effect

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-104
Author(s):  
Zakaria Aouf ◽  
Chakib Seladji
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Soret Effect ◽  
Heterogeneous Porous Media ◽  
Separation Process ◽  
Thermosolutal Convection ◽  
Cold Wall ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Industrial Activities ◽  
Discrete Fracture ◽  
The One

AbstractSpecies separation in heterogeneous porous media is a field of interest of many industrial activities. In our investigation, the effect of a single discrete fracture on the thermosolutal convection coupled with the Soret effect have been analyzed. The main results show that the fracture can greatly affect the behavior of the thermogravitational flow and might play a positive role to the separation caused by the Soret effect. Furthermore, the fracture tilted to the cold wall causes a large separation compared to the one tilted to the hot wall with the same angle. Therefore, the separation process could be greatly improved.

scholarly journals Effect of Thermophysical Properties on Coupled Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Material during Forced Convective Drying

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 830387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Cai ◽  
Lexian Zhu ◽  
Shilin Dong ◽  
Guozhen Xie ◽  
Junming Li
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Diffusion Coefficient ◽  
Temperature Distribution ◽  
Moisture Content ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Soret Effect ◽  
Convective Drying ◽  
Large Temperature ◽  
Kinetics Of

The convective drying kinetics of porous medium was investigated numerically. A mathematical model for forced convective drying was established to estimate the evolution of moisture content and temperature inside multilayered porous medium. The set of coupled partial differential equations with the specified boundary and initial conditions were solved numerically using a MATLAB code. An experimental setup of convective drying had been constructed and validated the theoretical model. The temperature and moisture content of the potato samples were dynamically measured and recorded during the drying process. Results indicate that thermal diffusion coefficient has significant positive impact on temperature distribution and mass diffusion coefficient might directly affect the moisture content distribution. Soret effect has a significant impact on heat flux and temperature distribution in the presence of large temperature gradient.

Numerical Analysis of Ludwig-Soret Effect of One Binary Mixture and Two Ternary Mixtures in an Al2O3 Porous Cavity

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. J. Jaber ◽  
M. Z. Saghir
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Numerical Analysis ◽  
Binary Mixture ◽  
Ternary Mixture ◽  
Soret Effect ◽  
Ternary Mixtures ◽  
Thermosolutal Convection ◽  
Left Wall ◽  
Porous Cavity

A cavity of 10 mm in width, 10 mm in height, and 32.1 mm in horizontal length filled with Al2O3 porous medium designed in Pau project to investigate thermal diffusion phenomena, or Ludwig-Soret effect. A lateral heating condition was applied with 10 °C at the left wall and 50 °C at the right wall. The thermosolutal convection of a binary mixture of water-ethanol at 75.0 MPa pressure, a ternary mixture with methane, n-butane, and n-dodecan at 35.0 MPa pressure, and a ternary mixture of n-dodecane, isobutylbenzene, and tetrahydonaphthalene at atmosphere pressure inside the Al2O3 porous medium cavity were numerically investigated. The thermal conductivity and the permeability of Al2O3 porous medium on the Ludwig-Soret effect were analyzed, the former had little influence, but the later had strong impact on the compositional separation at the steady state of thermosolutal convection, which were analyzed globally with separation ratio. The distributions of component mole fraction(s) on the horizontal and vertical lines in the center of the porous cavity were also shown to study the details of the compositional separation at the steady state of thermosolutal convection. Recommendations are made for the experimental design based on the results of numerical analysis

Magnetohydrodynamics and Soret Effects on Bioconvection in a Porous Medium Saturated With a Nanofluid Containing Gyrotactic Microorganisms

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Shaw ◽  
P. Sibanda ◽  
A. Sutradhar ◽  
P. V. S. N. Murthy
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Sherwood Number ◽  
Peclet Number ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Soret Effect ◽  
Magnetic Field Effect ◽  
Lewis Number ◽  
Solute Concentration ◽  
Péclet Number

We investigate the bioconvection of gyrotactic microorganism near the boundary layer region of an inclined semi infinite permeable plate embedded in a porous medium filled with a water-based nanofluid containing motile microorganisms. The model for the nanofluid incorporates Brownian motion, thermophoresis, also Soret effect and magnetic field effect are considered in the study. The governing partial differential equations for momentum, heat, solute concentration, nanoparticle volume fraction, and microorganism conservation are reduced to a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations using similarity transformations and solved numerically. The effects of the bioconvection parameters on the thermal, solutal, nanoparticle concentration, and the density of the micro-organisms are analyzed. A comparative analysis of our results with previously reported results in the literature is given. Some interesting phenomena are observed for the local Nusselt and Sherwood number. It is shown that the Péclet number and the bioconvection Rayleigh number highly influence the local Nusselt and Sherwood numbers. For Péclet numbers less than 1, the local Nusselt and Sherwood number increase with the bioconvection Lewis number. However, both the heat and mass transfer rates decrease with bioconvection Lewis number for higher values of the Péclet number.

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