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Transport in Porous Media, Vol.67, No.3, 335-352, 2007
The effect of thermal dispersion on free convection film condensation on a vertical plate with a thin porous layer
An analytical solution to the problem of condensation by natural convection over a thin porous substrate attached to a cooled impermeable surface has been conducted to determine the velocity and temperature profiles within the porous layer, the dimensionless thickness film and the local Nusselt number. In the porous region, the Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer (DBF) model describes the flow and the thermal dispersion is taken into account in the energy equation. The classical boundary layer equations without inertia and enthalpyterms are used in the condensate region. It is found that due to the thermal dispersion effect, the increasing of heat transfer is significant. The comparison of the DBF model and the Darcy-Brinkman (DB) one is carried out.
Keywords:condensation;natural convection;porous layer;thermal dispersion;Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer model;analytical method