A general similarity transformation for combined free and forced-convection flows within a fluid-saturated porous medium (original) (raw)

Journal of Heat Transfer-transactions of The Asme, 1987

Abstract

It is the purpose of the present paper to introduce a general transformation procedure appropriate to the problem of combined free and forced convection in a porous medium. It will be shown that particular transformations proposed in the previous papers by Cheng and Minkowycz and co-workers are simply the specific forms of the present general transformation. Pure forced convection will be treated first as a limiting case of combined free and forced convection. The analysis reveals that any two-dimensional or axisymmetric body of arbitrary shape possesses its corresponding class of wall temperature distributions which permit similarity solutions. Secondly, combined free and forced convection will be considered to seek similarity solutions. It is found that, unlike in pure forced convection, similarity solutions in mixed convection are possible only when the external free-stream velocity varies every where in proportion to the product of the streamwise component of the gravity force and the wall-ambient temperature difference.

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