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Fully developed forced convection in a parallel plate channel filled by a saturated porous medium, with walls held either at uniform temperature or at uniform heat flux, with the effects of viscous dissipation and flow work included, is treated analytically. The Brinkman model is employed. The analysis leads to expressions for the Nusselt number, as a function of the Darcy number and Brinkman number.
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Nield, D.A., Kuznetsov, A.V. & Xiong, M. Effects of Viscous Dissipation and Flow Work on Forced Convection in a Channel Filled by a Saturated Porous Medium. Transport in Porous Media 56, 351–367 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:TIPM.0000026087.77213.c8
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