Isotherms of Natural and Forced Convection Around a Heated Horizontal Cylinder Embedded in a Porous Medium - Selected Topics of Computational and Experimental Fluid Mechanics - page 226

on the dimensionless vertical coordinate z. The distribution obtained experimentally
(dashed line) is compared with the numerically obtained solution of Kurdyumov and
Liñán ( 2001 ) (solid line). The experimental curve corresponds to the case depicted
in the snapshot 6 of Fig. 3 .
Fig. 5 a Infrared image showing the plume shape due to forced convection induced from the upper
part of the saturated porous medium. b Plot showing the temperature distribution as a function of
the distance (length taken with reference to the vertical z -axis passing through the heat source)
Fig. 6 a Infrared picture showing the plume formed due to forced convection induced from the
lower part of the saturated porous medium. b Plot showing the temperature distribution as a function
of the distance (length taken with reference to the vertical z -axis passing through at the heat source)