Viscous dissipation effects in a vertical annulus filled with fluid-saturated porous medium
Eduard Marušić-Paloka and Igor Pažanin
Available online 05 June 2025
Abstract
The investigation of heat transfer within porous medium has attracted considerable interest because of its growing practical importance.
The present paper is devoted to the study of a steady-state non-isothermal fluid flow through a vertical cylindrical annulus filled with sparsely packed porous medium.
The governing system is given by the Darcy-Brinkman-Boussinesq model where the heat equation includes the viscous dissipation term.
The side walls are maintained at uniform temperatures, while the flow is driven by the axial pressure gradient.
Introducing the thickness of the annular region as the small parameter of the problem, the goal is to derive the approximation of the flow via asymptotic analysis.
Although the governing problem is coupled and nonlinear, the asymptotic solution is proposed in the explicit form and that represents our main contribution.
As such, it clearly displays the effects of porous structure and viscous dissipation on the temperature and velocity distribution.
Due to the viscous dissipation, we observe the increase in the heat generation leading to a raise in the temperature and velocity profile within the annulus.
Moreover, it is deduced that reducing the thickness of the annular region may be employed to strengthen the seepage velocity of the working fluid.
Mathematics Subject Classification
35B40, 35Q35, 76S05
Keywords
cylindrical annulus, viscous dissipation, porous medium, asymptotic analysis
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2298/TAM250311009M
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Blow-up phenomena for a damped wave equation with logarithmic source term and variable-exponents
Mohammed Y. Trigui and Mohamed Saadaoui
Available online 03 November 2025
Abstract
This paper investigates the wave equation with variable-exponent nonlinearity and logarithmic source term, given by the following:
where and are positive constants, and the functions and satisfy certain required conditions.
Using the energy method and several inequality techniques, we establish a finite-time global nonexistence result for specific solutions with positive initial energy, under appropriate conditions.
This type of equation has significant applications in various fields, including fluid dynamics, electrorheological fluids, quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, optics, and geophysics.
Mathematics Subject Classification
35L05, 35L20, 35L70, 35B40, 35B44
Keywords
wave equation, variable exponent, logarithmic source, blow-up
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2298/TAM250112018T
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On global existence of weak solutions for compressible self-gravitating fluids with unbounded domains
Jan Muhammad
Available online 08 December 2025
Abstract
This paper examines to the global existence of weak solutions for compressible self-gravitating fluids in three-dimensional unbounded domain with a compact Lipschitz boundary, assuming a total finite fluid mass.
We prove that there exists a globally defined weak solution that satisfies the energy inequality in differential form.
Mathematics Subject Classification
35Q35; 76E19
Keywords
weak solutions, energy inequality, compressible self-gravitating fluid, unbounded domain
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2298/TAM250226019M
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