Numerical Study of Radiative Heat Flux Emitted by Stainless Wire-Net Porous Media

Numerical model of the convective-radiative heat transfer of porous media was proposed. A stainless wire-net was used as porous media. The physical properties, consisting of porosity (φ) and optical thickness (τ0), of porous media were independent variables. The air velocity was reported in the form of Reynolds number (Re). Two equations of the conservative energy with local thermal non-equilibrium were analyzed. The gas (θf) and solid (θs) phases of conservative energy equation inside porous media were investigated. The radiative heat flux (ψ) at down-stream of solid phase emitted into outside was dealt by the P1 approximation. From the study, it was found that the level of θf and θs decreased as Re increased because the effect of convection heat transfer. Inversely, the level of ψ increased as increasing Re. The level of θf, θs and ψ were decreased as φ increased owing to a lower volume of material depended on the increasing level of φ resulting to the heat transfer rate became lower. The level of θf, θs and ψ gave increased with τ0 becaues a wider distance in absorping energy leading to a higher emission energy from the porous media was achieved.