Convective heat and solute transfer in partially porous cavities

This paper deals with natural convection driven by combined thermal and solutal buoyancy forces in a binary fluid. The configuration under study is a confined enclosure partially filled with a vertical porous layer. The mathematical description of the problem is based on a one-domain formulation of the conservation equations. The set of numerical results presented here quantitatively shows the influence of the porous layer on the flow structure and on heat and species transfer in the enclosure.