Analytical solution of cloaking in creeping flow inside composite porous media with simultaneous heat transfer

Abstract

This paper presents a theoretical analysis of steady-state creeping flow in a composite porous domain with coupling heat transfer. The problem arises in thermal cloaking studies in which it is desirable to hide an obstacle from the surrounding hydrodynamic and thermal fields, by suitably covering the obstacle with a cloak having specific material properties. The particular system under investigation consists of a porous composite region, with a thermal-hydro field driven by imposed temperature and pressure difference in the surrounding. Both two dimensional circular and three-dimensional axisymmetric spherical annuli are considered. Under the validity of Darcy law for a porous medium, an exact solution satisfying the continuity, momentum and energy equations at any Péclet number is derived. The analytical results have been numerically verified using the commercial code COMSOL.