Advances of heat transfer in porous media⇔a review

This study proposes to enhance the porous media heat and mass transfer inside thermal devices like heat exchangers, flat-plate solar air collectors, and other electronic equipment. These devices play an important role in industry today. The present study aims to conduct a comprehensive literature review on the porous media laminar and turbulent heat transfer, in the presence of turbulators with different geometries, placed in various manners, inside geometries of irregular shape. This represents a very important issue in the area of heat exchangers where the flow must be characterized; there is also a need to identify the velocity distribution, as well as the existence and the extension of possible recirculations.