A Numerical Investigation of Natural Convection in a Porous Enclosure with Lower Wall Heating

Abstract

Fluid movement and heat transmission study of consistent and non-consistent heated porous material has emerged as a discrete study field in the last thirty years, owing to its relevance in abundant applications, including waste used in nuclear power plant and fibres insulations, solar collectors, and so on. In recent decades, there has been a surge in interest in studying various elements of the porous media. This enormous level of attention has resulted in a slew of research publications addressing a wide variety of issues affecting porous materials, including understanding their structure, deformation, and natural convective heat transport, to name a few. The investigate of the porous material is one of the classical topics in field of science. In this paper, we investigate the free convection in a trapezoidal porous enclosure with different Rayleigh numbers (10 1 ≤ Ra ≤ 103) and aspect ratios (0.25 ≤ H/L ≤ 1). The effect of Ra and AR on temperature contours, local and mean Nusselt numbers has been analyzed and presented. This provided a result in which the mean Nu increased by increasing the H/L ratio and Modified Ra. In addition, convection mode is dominant when Rayleigh number is high. The outcome results are differentiated with those found in the literature and were found to be in good accordance.