Journal ArticleDOI
Three-dimensional natural convection in finned cubical enclosures
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this article, the authors investigated three-dimensional natural convection of air in a cubical enclosure with a fin on the hot wall for Rayleigh numbers of 103-106 and concluded that fin of partial width is more effective in promoting heat transfer than a fin of full width.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow.The article was published on 2007-04-01. It has received 62 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Annular fin & Fin.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Numerical study of natural convection cooling of horizontal heat source mounted in a square cavity filled with nanofluid
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a numerical study of natural convection cooling of a heat source horizontally attached to the left vertical wall of a cavity filled with copper-water nanofluid.
Journal ArticleDOI
Numerical study of laminar natural convection inside square enclosure with single horizontal fin
TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical study for laminar natural convection inside a square enclosure with a single horizontal fin attached to its hot wall has been carried out The enclosure horizontal surfaces are adiabatic, the left wall is hot while the right one is cold The Prandtl number for the flow inside the enclosure is 071.
Journal ArticleDOI
Three-dimensional unsteady natural convection and entropy generation in an inclined cubical trapezoidal cavity with an isothermal bottom wall
Ahmed Hussein,Kolsi Lioua,Ramesh Chand,Sivanandam Sivasankaran,Rasoul Nikbakhti,Dong Li,Borjini Mohamed Naceur,Ben Aissia Habib +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed numerical computation of entropy and convection in an inclined cubical trapezoidal air-filled cavity and showed that when the Rayleigh number increases, flow patterns are changed especially in three-dimensional results and the flow circulation increases.
Journal ArticleDOI
Laminar natural convection heat transfer and air flow in three-dimensional rectangular enclosures with pin arrays attached to hot wall
Zerrin Bocu,Zekeriya Altaç +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the Nusselt Number Ratio with respect to the enclosure without pins increases with pin length, pin number and number of isothermal cylindrical pins attached to the interior of the hot wall in various arrangements.
Journal ArticleDOI
Three-dimensional double diffusive natural convection across a cubical enclosure partially filled by vertical porous layer
TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical study with two and three-dimensional flows, in an enclosure domain partially filled with a vertical porous media layer saturated by a mixture of air with another gaseous component, the Prandtl number Pr is kept at 0.7.
References
More filters
Book
Numerical heat transfer and fluid flow
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on heat and mass transfer, fluid flow, chemical reaction, and other related processes that occur in engineering equipment, the natural environment, and living organisms.
Journal ArticleDOI
Natural convection of air in a square cavity: A bench mark numerical solution
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used mesh refnement and extrapolation to obtain an accurate solution of the equations describing two-dimensional natural convection in a square cavity with differentially heated side walls.
Journal ArticleDOI
Laminar Natural Convection Heat Transfer in a Differentially Heated Square Cavity Due to a Thin Fin on the Hot Wall
Xundan Shi,Jay M. Khodadadi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a finite volume-based computational study of steady laminar natural convection (using Boussinesq approximation) within a differentially heated square cavity due to the presence of a single thin fin is presented.
Journal ArticleDOI
Natural convection in cavities with a thin fin on the hot wall
TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical study has been carried out in differentially heated square cavities, which are formed by horizontal adiabatic walls and vertical isothermal walls, where a thin fin is attached on the active wall.
Related Papers (5)
A three dimensional numerical study on natural convection heat transfer from short horizontal rectangular fin array
Moghtada Mobedi,H. Yüncü +1 more