S. Slama1, H. Kahalerras1, B. Fersadou1
FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.13, No.3, pp. 155-172, 2017, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2017.013.155
Abstract A numerical study is conducted to investigate the problem of mixed convection of a nanofluid in a vertical porous channel with one wall heated and the other cooled. The Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer model is used to describe the flow in the porous medium, considered as anisotropic in thermal conductivity, and the two-phase approach is adopted to simulate the motion of the nanofluid. The governing equations with the associated boundary conditions are solved by the finite volume method. The parametric study is focused on the variation of the Richardson number Ri, the heat fluxes ratio Rq, the Darcy number… More >