CFD Analysis of Heat Transfer and Flow Characteristics in A 3D Cubic Enclosure
Journal Title: International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) - Year 2014, Vol 4, Issue 5
Abstract
Flow arising “naturally” from the effect of density difference, resulting from temperature or concentration difference in a body force field such as gravity, the process is termed as natural convection. There has been growing interest in buoyancy-induced flows and the associated heat and mass transfer over the past three decades, because of the importance of these flows in many different areas such as cooling of electronic equipment, pollution, materials processing, energy systems and safety in thermal processes. Steady state laminar natural convection in a cubic enclosure with a cold vertical wall and two square heaters with constant temperature on the opposite wall is studied numerically. The enclosure is fitted with various liquids. Three-dimensional Navier Stokes equations are solved by employing SIMPLE algorithm. Computations are performed for a range of Rayleigh number from 104to 107 while enclosure aspect ratio varies from 0.1 to 1.25. The effects of Rayleigh number, enclosure aspect ratio, and Prandtl number on heat transfer characteristics are studied in detail. The results show that the flow field is very complex and heat transfer from the two heaters is not the same. The effect of Prandtl number is negligible in the range 5 to 100 with other parameters kept constant. This allows the use of liquids such as water for studying other dielectric liquids, provided the flow geometry and other non-dimensional parameters are similar. The overall Nusselt number increased markedly with Rayleigh Number. It is also affected by enclosure aspect ratio.
Authors and Affiliations
Mohd. Abdul Samad1 , Dr. Syed Nawazish Mehdi2 , Md. Abdul Raheem Junaidi3 , Dr. M. Manzoor Hussain4
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