Heat and mass transfer by natural convection in a doubly stratified non-Darcy micropolar fluid

Type design for bilayer textile materials under low temperature: Modeling, numerical algorithm and simulation

“…The phenomena of coupled heat and mass transfer in porous media have been drawing the attention of research groups. From 1930s, researchers have discussed a few models of heat and moisture transfer and corresponding numerical simulations of thermal and water vapor concentration in porous media [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14].…”

“…After his work, some coupled models of heat and moisture transfer were established or developed on the basis of partial differential equations in [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] or ordinary differential equations in [13]. Although considerable previous work had been carried out on the diverse aspects of simultaneous heat and moisture transfer both theoretically and experimentally, little had been done on the coupling of heat and moisture transfer with phase change and condensation before 2000.…”

“…Based on these models, they have derived different numerical methods to solve these problems, such as finite difference method, finite volume method, finite element method, transfer function method and controllability volume-time-domain recursive method, and the numerical results are well matched with experimental results [4,[6][7][8][9]11]. Some researchers, such as Cheng, had studied the natural convection of heat and mass transfer in porous media [5,10,12].…”

“…The computation of temperature and moisture content fields in porous media, from the knowledge of initial and boundary conditions, as well as of the thermal physical properties appearing in the formulation, constitutes a direct problem of heat and mass transfer [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. On the other hand, according to the environmental temperature and humidity and the body comfort index, simultaneous estimation of physical parameters and thickness of textiles are inverse problems for coupled heat and mass transfer process [15,16].…”

Micropolar fluid flow towards a stretching/shrinking sheet in a porous medium with suction

“…The special features of micropolar fluids were discussed in a comprehensive review paper of the subject and application of micropolar fluid mechanics by Ariman et al [2]. In parallel with technological applications, the nature of solution structure have been investigated and reviewed by many authors [3][4][5][6][7][8][9].…”