This study presents an analysis of forced convection in a porous triangular channel. The flow is laminar, fully developed and assumed to have constant properties. The porous channel has an isotropic matrix and the boundary conditions are fixed with a constant temperature. In this paper, accurate analytical solutions are presented to determine the effects of apex angle and porous media properties on the temperature distribution in a triangular channel along with the Nusselt number NuT.

Volume Subject Area:
Heat Transfer
Keywords:
Porous media, Porosity, Permeability, Apex angle
Topics:
Heat transfer, Porous materials
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