Inverse Conduction Heat Transfer in a Channel Filled with Porous Material under Local Thermal Non-Equilibrium Condition

This paper is concerned with the inverse heat transfer between two parallel plates filled with a porous medium under a non-equilibrium condition. Sequential Function Specification Method (SFSM) and Conjugate Gradient Method (CGM) with Adjoint equations are employed to estimate the transient wall heat flux at the porous boundary. Combination of the non-thermal equilibrium model and inverse heat transfer methods is the novelty of this paper. Results showed that sensor locations and existing noise in the measured data have important effects on the calculated heat flux.