Comments on ‘A New Model for Viscous Dissipation in Porous Media Across a Range of Permeability Values’, Transport in Porous Media 53, 117–122, 2003

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The Onset of Convection in an Anisotropic Heterogeneous Porous Medium: A New Hydrodynamic Boundary Condition

Transport in Porous Media - The Horton–Rogers–Lapwood problem with strong heterogeneity and anisotropy is examined for a simple case, namely where the heterogeneity is provided by two...     

Streamlines in Bénard convection cells induced by surface tension and buoyancy

Résumé L'équation différentielle obtenue en appliquant la théorie des perturbations au problème de la convection cellulaire a déjà été résolue par rapport aux valeurs propres définissant le début de l'instabilité. Dans ce travail on cherche les fonctions propres correspondant à diverses combinaisons des forces de poussée et de tension superficielle et différentes conditions thermiques à la surface libre. On discute la relation entre la disposition des lignes de courant et le degré d'interdépendance des deux agents d'instabilité. On a tracé les lignes de courant dans le cas où la convection résulte de la tension superficielle seule sur une surface libre isolée thermiquement. Ces lignes sont peu différentes de celles qu'on trouve dans les mêmes conditions lorsque la convection est due à la poussée seule. Ceci explique le haut degré d'interdépendance entre les deux phénomènes, lorsque la surface supérieure est isolée thermiquement.     

The Effects of Combined Horizontal and Vertical Heterogeneity on the Onset of Convection in a Porous Medium with Vertical Throughflow

The effects of hydrodynamic and thermal heterogeneity, for the case of variation in both the horizontal and vertical directions, on the onset of convection in a horizontal layer of a saturated porous medium uniformly heated from below, with weak vertical throughflow, are studied analytically for the case of weak heterogeneity. It is found that when the boundary conditions at the upper and lower boundaries are symmetric, the throughflow magnitude and the permeability and conductivity gradients enter the expression for the critical Rayleigh number at second order. The throughflow on its own is stabilizing but the combination of throughflow and heterogeneity may be either stabilizing or destabilizing.     

Response to Comment on “Combined Forced and Free Convective Flow in a Vertical Porous Channel: The Effects of Viscous Dissipation and Pressure Work” by A. Barletta and D. A. Nield,Transport in Porous Media,DOI 10.1007/s11242-008-9320-y, 2009

This short note is a response to the comment on our recently published paper cited in the title. All points raised by the author of the comment are discussed. It is shown that one of the remarks, concerning eigenflow solutions in the limiting case of forced convection, does not have a sound physical basis. In fact, it refers to a circumstance, a fluid with a thermal expansion coefficient greater than that of a perfect gas, of marginal or no interest in the framework of convection in porous media.     

The Effect of Pulsating Deformation on the Onset of Convection in a Porous Medium

A linear instability analysis has been performed for the onset of convection in a horizontal layer of a porous medium whose permeability pulsates with time as a result of vertical movement of one of the boundaries. It was found that, to a first-order approximation in the pulsation amplitude, the effect of deformation is destabilizing for disturbances whose period is of the order of the thermal diffusion time scale. The effects of the average porosity, pulsation amplitude, and pulsation frequency were investigated.     

Onset of Convection in a Porous Medium with Strong Vertical Throughflow

The problem for determining the critical Rayleigh number for the onset of convection in a horizontal porous layer with vertical throughflow is re-examined with the aim of obtaining analytical formulas applicable in the cases of weak and strong throughflow. For the case of strong throughflow an asymptotic analysis is performed.     

Forced Convection with Slip-flow in a Channel or Duct Occupied by a Hyper-porous Medium Saturated by a Rarefied Gas

An analytic solution is obtained for forced convection flow in a parallel-plates channel or a circular duct occupied by a hyper-porous medium saturated with a rarefied gas in the slip-flow regime, for the case of uniform flux boundary conditions. As expected, it is found that velocity slip leads in general to increased heat transfer and temperature slip leads to reduced heat transfer.