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[Selawe97]

Hi

I have a simple 2d square domain with heat flux at the bottom, when I activate the non-equilibrium thermal model in porose media in fluent, it creates a new solid zone coincides with the fluid zone, and as a result of that it creates new walls at the boundaries of the domain, for example, I will be having two walls at the bottom, one for fluid and a new one for the solid (porous zone) which mean two walls at the bottom boundary, the question is where should I apply heat flux, or in other words how I should apply heat flux at the bottom so the total heat flux be 4000 w/m^-2. to a fluid wall or solid porous wall or do I still need to do another step?

Thanks for helping

[Rob]

It's not quite that simple. The two walls don't see one another, so you need to decide which wall to heat by how much. 

[Rob]

As a comment (and skirting the edge of where I can't say anything), which heat transfer mechanism do you think will dominate?