Heat Transfer to Liquid Metal Flow in a Porous Saturated Circular Tube with Uniform Wall Temperature: An Exact Solution

摘要

A theoretical analysis is presented to investigate the thermal development of liquid metal forced-convection flow in a circular tube filled by a saturated porous medium, with uniform wall temperature and with the effects of axial conduction included. The Darcy model is employed. The analysis leads to expressions for the local Nusselt number as a function of the dimensionless axial coordinate and the Peclet number.