Elyazid Flilihi^a,† , Mohammed Sriti^a , Driss Achemlal^b , Mohamed El haroui^a

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.9, pp. 1-8, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.9.23

Abstract A semi - analytical investigation is performed to analyze the thermal convection flow with a radiation flux and a variable internal heat generation along an inclined plate embedded in a saturated porous medium. The flow in the porous medium is modeled with the Darcy-Brinkman law taking into account the convective term, while the temperature field is obtained from the energy equation. These governing equations with the boundary conditions are first cast into a dimensionless form by using a unique similarity transformation and the resulting coupled differential equations are then solved numerically by a computational program More >

Mohammad Hasan Khademi^a,*, Abbas Mozafari^b

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.7, pp. 1-8, 2016, DOI:10.5098/hmt.7.33

Abstract An integral energy equation model is used to calculate the heat transfer coefficient/Nusselt number, thermal boundary layer thickness and temperature distribution in the turbulent boundary layer for forced convection over a smooth flat plate. The proposed model is based on two polynomial temperature profiles in a thermal laminar sublayer as well as in a fully developed boundary layer and two integral energy equations. The performance of this new model is compared with the most commonly used semi-empirical correlations and the complex established models such as k-ε, k-ω, RSM, and a good agreement is achieved. More >