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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications
An International Journal of Computation and Methodology
Volume 68, 2015 - Issue 12
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Original Articles

Natural Convection Coupled with Radiation Heat Transfer in Slanted Square and Shallow Enclosures Containing an Isotropic Scattering Medium

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Pages 1369-1393 | Received 12 Feb 2015, Accepted 17 Apr 2015, Published online: 12 Jul 2015
 

Abstract

A finite-volume method (FVM) is used to address combined heat transfer, natural convection, and volumetric radiation with an isotropic scattering medium, in a tilted shallow enclosure. Numerical simulations are performed in the in-house fluid flow software GTEA. All the results obtained by the present FVM agree very well with the numerical solutions in the references. The effects of various influencing parameters such as the Planck number (0.0001 ≤ Pl ≤ 10), the scattering albedo (0 ≤ ω ≤ 1), the inclination angle (−60° ≤ α ≤ 90°), and aspect ratio (1 ≤ AR ≤ 5) on flow and heat transfer have been numerically studied. For a constant Pl number, flow is slightly intensified at the midplane as the Ra number increases from 106 to 5 × 106. As the scattering albedo increases, the effect of radiation heat transfer decreases on both slanted and horizontal enclosures. In positive tilt angles, the influence of α on heat transfer is quite remarkable. The highest Nurad appears at α = 30° (ω = 1)and 0° (ω = 0, 0.5), whereas Nurad is maximum at α = − 15° (ω = 1) and −45° (ω = 0, 0.5). At α = −15°, the maximum and minimum values of Nurad are presented for ω = 0, AR = 1 and ω = 1, AR = 5.

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