A bioheat transfer model: Forced convection in a channel occupied by a porous medium with counterflow

2008 ◽  
Vol 51 (23-24) ◽  
pp. 5534-5541 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.A. Nield ◽  
A.V. Kuznetsov
2004 ◽  
Vol 126 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Hu ◽  
Ashish Gupta ◽  
Jay P. Gore ◽  
Lisa X. Xu

A bioheat-transfer-based numerical model was utilized to study the energy balance in healthy and malignant breasts subjected to forced convection in a wind tunnel. Steady-state temperature distributions on the skin surface of the breasts were obtained by numerically solving the conjugate heat transfer problem. Parametric studies on the influences of the airflow on the skin thermal expression of tumors were performed. It was found that the presence of tumor may not be clearly shown due to the irregularities of the skin temperature distribution induced by the airflow field. Nevertheless, image subtraction techniques could be employed to eliminate the effects of the flow field and thermal noise and significantly improve the thermal signature of the tumor on the skin surface. Inclusion of the possible skin vascular response to cold stress caused by the airflow further enhances the signal, especially for deeply embedded tumors that otherwise may not be detectable.


2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-166
Author(s):  
Aneta Bohojło-Wiśniewska

Summary This paper presents an example of humid air flow around a single head of Chinese cabbage under conditions of complex heat transfer. This kind of numerical simulation allows us to create a heat and humidity transfer model between the Chinese cabbage and the flowing humid air. The calculations utilize the heat transfer model in porous medium, which includes the temperature difference between the solid (vegetable tissue) and fluid (air) phases of the porous medium. Modelling and calculations were performed in ANSYS Fluent 14.5 software.


1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 880-888 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Poulikakos ◽  
K. Renken

This paper presents a series of numerical simulations which aim to document the problem of forced convection in a channel filled with a fluid-saturated porous medium. In modeling the flow in the channel, the effects of flow inertia, variable porosity and Brinkman friction are taken into account. Two channel configurations are investigated: parallel plates and circular pipe. In both cases, the channel wall is maintained at constant temperature. It is found that the general flow model predicts an overall enhancement in heat transfer between the fluid/porous matrix composite and the walls, compared to the predictions of the widely used Darcy flow model. This enhancement is reflected in the increase of the value of the Nusselt number. Important results documenting the dependence of the temperature and flow fields in the channel as well as the dependence of the thermal entry length on the problem parameters are also reported in the course of the study.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khadija Tul Kubra Lehre ◽  
R. McKibbin ◽  
Sana Ullah Ullah Lehre ◽  
Muhammad Khalid ◽  
Winston L. Sweatman

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Saba Javaid ◽  
Asim Aziz

The present work covers the flow and heat transfer model for the power-law nanofluid in the presence of a porous medium over the penetrable plate. The flow is caused by the impulsive movement of the plate embedded in Darcy’s type porous medium. The flow and heat transfer model has been examined with the effect of linear thermal radiation and the internal heat source or sink in the flow regime. The Rosseland approximation is utilized for the optically thick nanofluid. To form the closed-form solutions for the governing partial differential equations of conservation of mass, momentum, and energy, the Lie symmetry analysis is used to get the reductions of governing equations and to find the group invariants. These invariants are then utilized to obtain the exact solution for all three cases, i.e., shear thinning fluid, Newtonian fluid, and shear thickening fluid. In the end, all solutions are plotted for the cu -water nanofluid and discussed briefly for the different emerging flow and heat transfer parameters.


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