Effect of Porous Media Properties on Heat Transfer in Triangular Porous Duct

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 constant temperature. In this paper, accurate analytical solutions are presented to determine the effects of apex angle and porous media properties on the velocity and temperature distribution in a triangular channel along with the friction factor fRe, and Nusselt number Nu_T. The presentaion includes numerical features of the exact series solution using Brinkman’s model. Numerical results for dimensionless average temperature and velocity are presented for various porosities, permeabilities and apex angles.