Experiments on Coupled Parallel Flows in a Channel and a Bounding Porous Medium

Experiments were performed to study the laminar flow characteristics and the laminar-turbulent transition in a parallel-plate channel, one of whose bounding walls is a porous medium. The flow regime investigated herein is characterized by parallel, unidirectional, fully developed flows in the channel and the porous medium. The experimental results for the laminar regime were found to be in excellent accord with theoretical predictions based on a...