Abstract
Shortage of energy is increasing day by day and we have to store energy for our future. Storage is a challenge in the current scenario and lot of research is being conducted to find an effective way to store energy. Packed beds are one of the promising and potential methods to store thermal energy. This paper describes an attempt that has been made to study the fluid flow and heat flow characteristics in porous media. CFD analysis and experiments have been carried out with air-alumina as the porous medium. Pressure drop, velocity distribution, temperature distribution and Effective thermal conductivity have been found out. Parametric studies have been done both in experimentation and in the CFD analysis. Both experimental and computational results seem to be in good agreement.
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