Natural Convection and Radiation Heat Transfer in a Vertical Porous Layer with a Hexagonal Honeycomb Core (Part 2: Heat Transfer Experiment)

Combined natural convection and radiation heat transfer characteristics in a vertical porous layer with a hexagonal honeycomb core were investigated experimentally. The temperature distributions on the honeycomb core wall and the combined heat transfer rates through the porous layer were measured. The measurements of the heat transfer were accomplished using the guarded hot plate method. The honeycomb core wall was made of paper and large-mesh foamed resins were inserted into the honeycomb enclosures. The measurements were performed by varying the radiation parameters between 0.5 and 0.65, varying the temperature ratios between 0.01 and 0.1, and varying the Darcy-Rayleigh numbers between 5 and 80, and for a fixed aspect ratio H/L == 1. The experimental results for Nusselt numbers agreed well with our available numerical results.