Mixed Convective Heat Transfer for Fluid Flowing Through Annular Porous Medium

The study of the transport phenomena in porous media provides the fundamentals for various branches of science and engineering. We have reported currently on our researches on the fluid flow and convective heat transfer in porous media. The entrance and non-Darcy’s effects on the forced and mixed convective heat transfer were studied experimentally for air, water and transformer-oil flowing through a vertical annulus packed with porous media beads of different sizes. The results are reported and discussed here briefly.