A. Ja1, A. Cheddadi1
FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.13, No.4, pp. 235-249, 2017, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2017.013.235
Abstract This paper reports on the natural convection within a very narrow horizontal annular cavity filled with a porous medium saturated by a binary fluid. The main objective of this study is the identification of the effect of Lewis number on the flow structure and on the heat and mass transfer rates, in a cavity of very small radius ratio R=1.05, in the case of equal buoyancy forces (N=1), for a Rayleigh number Ra=50. The dimensionless governing equations were solved by the centered Finite Difference method using the ADI scheme. Several multicellular flows appear during the variation of More >