Forced convection in a porous medium heated by a permeable wall perpendicular to flow direction: analyses and measurements

Discovery of linear asymptotic behaviour at micro-Kelvin resolution in a modulated Rayleigh–Bénard chamber

“…The results reported in this paper predict a linear relation between Nusselt and Reynolds number in the presence of thermal stratification perpendicular to the direction of flow. This appears to be in reasonable agreement with recent experimental data (Zhao & Song 2001).…”

“…The result is remarkable in that it features a linear asymptotic behaviour at small Reynolds numbers in complete departure from the well-known square root behaviour in King's Law for hot-wire anemometry and its hotplate equivalent. Linearity appears to be in reasonable agreement with experimental data on forced flows through porous media (Zhao & Song 2001). This suggests that the proposed experiment might be a suitable cellular model for porous media in the presence of thermal stratification orthogonal to the direction of flow.…”

“…Thus, the Nusselt number is generally correlated to the Reynolds number Nu Z FðReÞ: ð3:1Þ An equivalent set-up is achieved in seeking the response to the Peclet number, given by the product of the Reynolds and Prandtl number (Zhao & Song 2001). However, the focus here is primarily on flow-dependence, and secondarily on sensitivity to different media.…”

Experimental verification of the field synergy principle

“…The experimental results in [9,10] give a strong support to the first deduction of FSP. However, to the authors' knowledge, the second deduction from the FSP has never been experimentally verified.…”

Physical quantity synergy in laminar flow field of convective heat transfer and analysis of heat transfer enhancement

“…Some numerical computations and experiment data in refs. [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] verified that the field synergy principle can be used as a guide to design heat transfer surfaces and heat exchangers.…”