Abstract
Summary Recent work on heat transfer in bidisperse porous media (BDPM)
is surveyed. Topics covered are the measurement of permeability and
thermal conductivity of BDPM, dispersion in BDPM, a new two-velocity
two-temperature model for BDPM, and the application of that model
to forced convection in a channel between two plane parallel walls.
In this application the analysis leads to expressions for the Nusselt
number as a function of properties of the BDPM, namely a conductivity
ratio, a permeability ratio, a volume fraction, and an internal heat
exchange parameter. For a conjugate problem the Nusselt number also
depends on a Biot number, while for thermally developing convection
it also depends on a suitable scaled longitudinal coordinate.
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