Temperature profiles due to continuous hot water injection into homogeneous fluid-saturated porous media through a line source

Abstract

We report a theoretical study to determine the temperature profiles due to the continuous andconstant injection of hot water through a line source, into a homogeneous fluid-saturated porous medium which has had initially a constant temperature T∞. In our treatment we have taken in to account the simultaneous injection of constant fluxes of volume fluid, q, and of heat, φ. By using a far-field description, we found similarity solutions for the dimensionless temperature depending on the Peclet number, P e, as the single parameter of the problem.