DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF FILTRATION IN A GRANULAR BED NEAR THE WALL
Yu. S. Teplitskii, V. I. Kovenskii, and M. V. Vinogradova UDC 532.5 A generalization of the Brinkman equation to the case of linear filtration has been proposed based on an analysis of the existing models of filtration of a liquid (gas) in a stationary granular bed. It has been shown that, with allowance for the local-porosity distribution over the cross section of the apparatus, this equation makes it possible to describe velocity distributions observed experimentally in the wall zone. A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, Belarus; email: kvi@hmti.ac.by. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 80, No. 5, pp. 141-147, September-October, 2007. Original article submitted March 17, 2006.