Simplified Correlation Equations of Heat Transfer Coefficient During Phase Change Flow Inside Tubes Filled With Porous Media

In this work an easy to use, simple and direct equations were formulated and tested. Heat transfer coefficients of phase change fluid flow were examined in this work. The considered fluid flow encountered convection heat flux inside rigid tubes filled with porous media. During the flow, phase change was assumed. Experimental work was conducted using Carbon dioxide as fluid.

An analytical method using exponential non dimensional analysis was used. The Buckingham π theorem and method of indices was used to obtain simplified formula for the convection heat transfer coefficient and for the Nusselt number.

Two different correlations can be extracted from this formula; one for the evaporation process and the other for the condensation process.