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Forced convection heat transfer in composite porous/fluid domains is of great practical and theoretical significance. However, research in this area traditionally addressed only the laminar flow case in both homogeneous fluid and porous regions of the domain. This paper investigates the interaction between turbulent flow in the center of a circular tube filled with a homogeneous fluid and laminar flow in the porous layer adjacent to the tube wall. A two-layer algebraic turbulence model suggested by Cebeci and Smith is utilized for the flow in the central region of the tube. The effects of turbulence in the central region on velocity and temperature distributions as well as on the Nusselt number are analyzed.
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The authors acknowledge with gratitude the assistance of the North Carolina Supercomputing Center (NCSC) under an Advanced Computing Resources Grant. The authors are grateful to the reviewers for constructive comments.
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Kuznetsov, A.V., Cheng, L. & Xiong, M. Investigation of turbulence effects on forced convection in a composite porous/fluid duct: Constant wall flux and constant wall temperature cases. Heat and Mass Transfer 39, 613–623 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00231-002-0377-9
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