Author:
Warghat Ketan V,Sathish Kumar D,Jayavel S
Abstract
Abstract
The effect of porosity on flow and thermal characteristics is significant. Fluid flow through porous media has many practical relevance such as agriculture, engineering, bio-medical, etc. applications. In the present study, flow of gas and through solar heater is simulated and the heat transfer characteristics are studied. Two-dimensional numerical simulations are carried using ANSYS-Fluent. Velocity of gas at the inlet is varied from 0.005 to 0.5 m/s and passed through the porous media with porosity value of 0.7. Results are presented in the form of pressure variation, velocity variation and temperature variation.
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy