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- Title
Simulation of Natural Convection Heat Transfer in a 2-D Trapezoidal Enclosure.
- Authors
Venkatadri, K.; Abdul Gaffar, S.; Prasad, V. R.; Hidayathualla Khan, B. Md.; Beg, O. A.
- Abstract
Natural convection within trapezoidal enclosures finds significant practical applications. The natural convection flows play a prominent role in the transport of energy in energyrelated applications, in case of proper design of enclosures to achieve higher heat transfer rates. In the present study, a two-dimensional cavity with adiabatic right side wall is studied. The left side vertical wall is maintained at the constant hot temperature and the top slat wall is maintained at cold temperature. The dimensionless governing partial differential equations for vorticity-stream function are solved using the finite difference method with incremental time steps. The parametric study involves a wide range of Rayleigh number, Ra, 103 ≤ Ra ≤ 105 and Prandtl number (Pr = 0.025, 0.71 and 10). The fluid flow within the enclosure is formed with different shapes for different Pr values. The flow rate is increased by enhancing the Rayleigh number (Ra = 104). The numerical results are validated with previous results. The governing parameters in the present article, namely Rayleigh number and Prandtl number on flow patterns, isotherms as well as local Nusselt number are reported.
- Subjects
HEAT transfer; FREE convection; NATURAL heat convection; RAYLEIGH number; NUSSELT number; PRANDTL number; FLUID flow
- Publication
International Journal of Automotive & Mechanical Engineering, 2019, Vol 16, Issue 4, p7375
- ISSN
2229-8649
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15282/ijame.16.4.2019.13.0547