NATURAL CONVECTION IN A CAVITY FILLED WITH POROUS MEDIUM WITH PARTIALLY THERMAL ACTIVE SIDEWALLS UNDER LOCAL THERMAL NONEQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 983-997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Wu ◽  
Gang Wang ◽  
Wenjing Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Natural Convection ◽  
Thermal Nonequilibrium ◽  
Nonequilibrium Conditions ◽  
Local Thermal Nonequilibrium

scholarly journals Effect of Local Thermal Nonequilibrium on the Stability of Natural Convection in an Oldroyd-B Fluid Saturated Vertical Porous Layer

2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. M. Shankar ◽  
I. S. Shivakumara
Keyword(s):  
Natural Convection ◽  
Solid Phase ◽  
Viscoelastic Fluids ◽  
Maxwell Fluid ◽  
Base Flow ◽  
Temperature Fields ◽  
Thermal Nonequilibrium ◽  
Interphase Heat Transfer ◽  
Local Thermal Nonequilibrium ◽  
The Stability

The effect of local thermal nonequilibrium (LTNE) on the stability of natural convection in a vertical porous slab saturated by an Oldroyd-B fluid is investigated. The vertical walls of the slab are impermeable and maintained at constant but different temperatures. A two-field model that represents the fluid and solid phase temperature fields separately is used for heat transport equation. The resulting stability eigenvalue problem is solved numerically using Chebyshev collocation method as the energy stability analysis becomes ineffective in deciding the stability of the system. Despite the basic state remains the same for Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids, it is observed that the base flow is unstable for viscoelastic fluids and this result is qualitatively different from Newtonian fluids. The results for Maxwell fluid are delineated as a particular case from the present study. It is found that the viscoelasticity has both stabilizing and destabilizing influence on the flow. Increase in the value of interphase heat transfer coefficient Ht, strain retardation parameter Λ2 and diffusivity ratio α portray stabilizing influence on the system while increasing stress relaxation parameter Λ1 and porosity-modified conductivity ratio γ exhibit an opposite trend.

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