Ankit Rathore
Mechanical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology Calicut, India
Biography
He is an M.Tech in Energy Engineering and Management from National Institute of Technology, Calicut.
Abstract
The present paper deals with the fluid flow and heat transfer in a channel filled with porous material sandwiched between two viscous fluids bounded by heated oscillating plates. The Darcy-Forchheimer and the Navier-Stokes equations are employed in the porous and clear fluid domains, respectively. At the interface, the flow boundary condition imposed is a stress jump together with a continuity of velocity. The thermal boundary condition is continuity of temperature and heat flux. Solutions for the flow velocity and temperature field are obtained numerically. The effects of flow parameters on the flow fields and heat transfer are discussed.
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