Natural Convection in a Rectangular Cavity Heated from Below and Uniformly Cooled from the Top and Both Sides
- 1 February 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications
- Vol. 49 (3), 301-322
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10407780500343749
Abstract
In this article, a study of natural convection inside a rectangular cavity is carried out. The bottom wall is heated by a spatially varying temperature and other three walls are kept constant at lower temperature. The integral forms of the governing equations are solved numerically using the finite-volume method in a nonorthogonal body-fitted coordinate system. The SIMPLE algorithm with higher-order upwinding scheme is used. Results are presented in the form of local and average Nusselt number distribution for a range of Rayleigh numbers (100–106) and aspect ratios (0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.25, 1.5, and 2). The streamlines and isothermal lines are presented for various Rayleigh numbers and a fluid having Prandtl number 0.71.Keywords
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