Abstract
Influence of Joule-Thomson's effect on thermally-developing forced-convection heat transfer in cylindrical packed beds with uniform heat flux wall was theoretically examined. The effect of non-Darcy, variable porosity, radial thermal dispersion, turbulence and viscous dissipation were taken into account in addition to Joule-Thomson's effect. It is shown that the influence of Joule-Thomson's effect on heat transfer characteristics becomes appreciable as a ratio of the bed-radius to the particle diameter, Reynolds number are increased and that as long as Reynolds number is constant, the heat transfer characteristics increases with a decrease in an inlet pressure.
