Effect of Heat Generation on Forced Convection Through a Porous Saturated Duct

The effect of heat generation on the flow characteristics of the fully developed forced convection through a porous duct is investigated analytically on the basis of Brinkman–Forchheimer model. The duct is bounded by two isoflux plates. For solving momentum equation a regular asymptotic expansion method is used for hyper-porous materials and a matched asymptotic expansion method is used for low-porous materials. This solution permits a uniform solution for the energy equation to find the temperature distribution as well as Nusselt number. A numerical solution is found here to check the accuracy of the asymptotic one.