An experimental study on the heat transport in porous media convection
Jing Dong Lu Zhang Ke-Qing Xia
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Abstract
We investigate the heat transport in porous media convection over a wide Rayleigh--Darcy number range of $26.8\leq Ra\leq 2.62\times 10^5$, and a Darcy number range of $6.18\times10^{-7}\leq Da\leq 1.21\times 10^{-5}$. In the experiments, we employ 3D-printed lattice structures as the solid porous matrix and water as the working fluid. Quantitative analyses of the porous medium Nusselt number $Nu_m$ and local temperature statistics reveal that the present system undergoes a transition through five distinct regimes: I. Conduction, II. Convection, III. Oscillation, IV. Transition, V. Classical Rayleigh--Bénard convection. This transitional process bridges the gap between Rayleigh--Darcy-like behaviour and Rayleigh--Bénard-like behaviour in porous media convection. By varying the permeability of the matrix, we further examine the role of the Darcy number $Da$, which turns out to have a profound impact on the transitional processes across different regimes. Flow field measurements reveal that the flow structures within Regime IV and Regime V evolve from several horizontally stacked convection rolls to a single-roll structure, and the pore-scale Reynolds number both exceeds unity in these two regimes. Finally, we report the corresponding phase diagram in the $Ra$-$Da$ space.引用本文复制引用
Jing Dong,Lu Zhang,Ke-Qing Xia.An experimental study on the heat transport in porous media convection[EB/OL].(2026-06-04)[2026-06-09].https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06331.学科分类
物理学/自然科学研究方法
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