... that this is generally true at higher Reynolds numbers as well. The volume-averaged energy equation in the fluid phase is closed by the thermal dispersion conductivity tensor, the convecting velocity, and the interfacial Nusselt number. Overall, it has been found that many existing correlations for the effective thermal...

...V. V. Sobha; R. Y. Vasudeva; K. Ramakrishna; K. Hema Latha Thermal dispersion due to local flows is significant in heat transfer with forced convection in porous media. The effects of parametrized melting ( M ) , thermal dispersion ( D ) , inertia ( F ) , and mixed convection (Ra/Pe...

... graphitic foam. The thermal model is used together with volume-averaged energy equations to calculate the thermal dispersion in graphitic foam. The results of the calculations show that the linear models for thermal dispersion available in literature are oversimplified for predicting thermal dispersion...

... thermal conductivity graphitic foam forced convection thermal non-equilibrium thermal dispersion 1 Porous materials have been studied in the past to understand their application in convective heat transfer. In general, porous materials include packed particle beds wherein the solid phase...