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Studies on natural convection within enclosures of various (non-square) shapes – A review
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In this paper, a review of the studies on natural convection heat transfer in triangular, trapezoidal, parallelogrammic enclosures and enclosures with curved and wavy walls filled with fluid or porous media is presented.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.The article was published on 2017-03-01. It has received 168 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Combined forced and natural convection & Natural convection.read more
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MHD natural convection and entropy generation of ferrofluid in an open trapezoidal cavity partially filled with a porous medium
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of uniform inclined magnetic field is numerically analyzed in an open trapezoidal cavity filled with a porous layer and a ferrofluid layer under the effects of natural convection combined with entropy generation.
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Nanoparticles migration due to thermophoresis and Brownian motion and its impact on Ag-MgO/Water hybrid nanofluid natural convection
Sahar Goudarzi,Masih Shekaramiz,Alireza Omidvar,Ehsan Golab,Arash Karimipour,Aliakbar Karimipour +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of nanoparticle migration due to Brownian motion and thermophoresis on Ag-MgO/Water hybrid nanofluid natural convection.
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Turbulent natural convection heat transfer in rectangular enclosures using experimental and numerical approaches: A review
TL;DR: A review of the research on turbulent natural convection in rectangular cavities using numerical and experimental techniques is presented in this paper, where several configurations of the enclosures with different initial and boundary conditions, heat source locations and radiative properties of medium and walls have been considered under the effects of various parameters such as the Rayleigh and Prandtl numbers, surface emissivity, cavity inclination angle, thermal properties, etc.
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A review of magnetic field influence on natural convection heat transfer performance of nanofluids in square cavities
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of several variables such as heat distribution methods, thermal and concentration boundary conditions, governing parameters, magnetic field types, numerical schemes, thermophysical correlation types, nanofluid types, slip conditions, Brownian motion, and thermophoresis on the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) natural convection behaviors of nanofluid in square cavities has been reviewed.
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Numerical investigation of natural convection of Al2O3-water nanofluid in a wavy cavity with conductive inner block using Buongiorno's two-phase model
Ishak Hashim,Ammar I. Alsabery,Ammar I. Alsabery,Mikhail A. Sheremet,Ali J. Chamkha,Ali J. Chamkha +5 more
TL;DR: By employing the finite element method, thermophoresis and Brownian diffusion are studied numerically relating to the natural convection in a wavy cavity that is filled with an Al 2 O 3 -water nanofluid possessing a central heat-conducting solid block that is influenced by the local heater located on the bottom wall as mentioned in this paper.
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Convection in Porous Media
Donald A. Nield,Adrian Bejan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an introduction to convection in porous media assumes the reader is familiar with basic fluid mechanics and heat transfer, going on to cover insulation of buildings, energy storage and recovery, geothermal reservoirs, nuclear waste disposal, chemical reactor engineering and the storage of heat-generating materials like grain and coal.
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Convection Heat Transfer
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a transition from Laminar boundary layer flow to Turbulent Boundary Layer flow with change of phase Mass Transfer Convection in Porous Media.
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Handbook of single-phase convective heat transfer
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of temperature-dependent Fluid properties on convective heat transfer has been investigated in the context of closed-loop convection in Ducts and cross-flow convection over Rod Bundles.