Heat Transfer in Immicible Fluids through a Channel with Porous Beds Bounded by Differentially Heated Plates Using Galerkin's Finite Element Method

Abstract

We analyze the heat transfer in the flow of two viscous incompressible immiscible fluids in a channel with porous beds bounded by differentially heated rigid plates by using Galerkin's finite element method.  Solutions of the governing equations have been obtained by dividing the flow region into four zones applying appropriate matching conditions.  The velocity, temperature and the shear stresses, Nusselt numbers are evaluated using finite element analysis and their behavior is discussed for variations in the governing parameters.