HEAT TRANSFER IN ISO-THERMAL TRIANGULAR CHANNEL FILLED WITH POROUS MEDIA

摘要

This study presents an analysis of forced convection in a porous triangular channel. The flow is laminar, fully developed and assumed to have constant properties. The porous channel has an isotropic matrix and the boundary conditions are fixed with a constant temperature. In this paper, accurate analytical solutions are presented to determine the effects of apex angle and porous media properties on the temperature distribution in a triangular channel along with the Nusselt number N_(ut).