• FORCED CONVECTION IN POROUS MEDIA

Abstract

An analytical approach for the effect of the transverse thermal dispersion on fully developed in a parallel plate channel filled with isotropic fluid saturated porous medium has been studied. The influence of various participating entities has been illustrated on the flow entities. It is observed that increase in the Darcy’s number contributes to increase in the velocity field. Further, it is also noted that increase in γ contributes to decrease in the velocity field. Further, it is seen that as the pore size increases the velocity is found to be increasing. Also, as γ increases the velocity is found to be decreasing significantly and it is seen that as the Darcy’s number increases the temperature is found to be increasing.