Simulation of Natural Convection in a horizontal channel with heat sources mounted with porous blocks by the lattice Boltzmann method (MRT-LBM)

Autor: BOUARNOUNA Kaoutar, BOUTRA Abdelkader, BENZEMA Mahdi, El Ganaoui Mohammed, BENKAHLA Youb Khaled
Jazyk: English<br />French
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: MATEC Web of Conferences, Vol 307, p 01009 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2261-236X
DOI: 10.1051/matecconf/202030701009
Popis: In this paper, laminar natural convection in a horizontal channel provided with porous blocks periodically distributed on its lower adiabatic surface has been analyzed. This numerical study is based on the multiple-relaxation-time (MRT) Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). The two-dimensional model D2Q9 is adopted to solve the flow field, while the D2Q5 model is applied to solve the temperature field. The objective of the study is to analyze the effect of the Darcy number (10-1 ≤ Da ≤ 10-6), Rayleigh number (103 ≤ Ra ≤ 107) and the relative porous blocks height (1/8 ≤ D ≤ 1/2). The obtained results show the important effect of these parameters, which cannot be neglected, on both flow and the heat transfer structure, within this kind of channels.
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