The Effect of Pore Size on the Heat Transfer Between a Heated Finned Surface and a Saturated Porous Plate

An investigation was performed to examine the effect that the pore size in a porous plate had on the heat transfer between a heated finned surface and a saturated porous plate at different gap distances between the surfaces. Experiments were performed for a porous plate with a nominal pore size of 50μm and the results were compared with previous results for a pore size of 200μm (Schertzer et al., 2006, “The Effect of Gap Distance on the Heat …