INFLUENCE OF THE POROUS MEDIA ON HEAT EXCHANGE AT FILM BOILING LIQUID

Abstract

The present work focuses on a study of heat transfer during film boiling of a liquid on a vertical heated wall immersed in a porous medium subject to variation of different parameters of the porous medium and heating conditions at the wall. An analytical solution was obtained for the problem using Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer model. It was shown that heat transfer intensity during film boiling in a porous medium is weaker than in a free fluid (without porosity) and decreases with the decreasing permeability of the porous medium. The use of a porous medium model in the Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer approximation showed the effect of the Forchheimer parameter on heat transfer during film boiling in a porous medium. An increase in the Forchheimer parameter leads to heat transfer deterioration, which is more significant at small values of the Darcy number. Effects of different thermal boundary conditions on the heated wall on the heat transfer are insignificant.