Conjugate natural convection-conduction heat transfer in a square enclosure with a finite wall thickness is studied numerically in the present paper. The governing parameters considered are the Rayleigh number (5 × 10(3) ≤ Ra ≤ 10(6)), the wall-to-fluid thermal conductivity ratio (0.5 ≤ Kr ≤ 10), and the ratio of wall thickness to its height (0.2 ≤ D ≤ 0.4). The staggered grid arrangement toget...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of magnetic field on the fluid flow and natural convection of CuO-water nanofluids with variable properties in an inclined square enclosure. The horizontal walls of cavity are insulated, the left sidewall assumed as hot wall and the right sidewall assumed as cold wall. Effects of Rayleigh numbers 103, 104, 105</su...

A Lattice Boltzmann method is applied to demonstrate the comparison results of simulating natural convection in an open end cavity using different hydrodynamic and thermal boundary conditions. The Prandtl number in the present simulation is 0.71, Rayleigh numbers are 104,105 and 106 and viscosities are selected 0.02 and 0.05. On-Grid bounce-back method with first-order accuracy and non-slip met...

Turbulent convection of fluids heated from below and cooled from above, which is known in literature as Rayleigh–Bénard convection (RBC) [1]–[2], is one of the classical problems in fluid dynamics. The most interesting examples of this process are convection in atmospheres, in oceans, on surfaces of stars. There are three main parameters characterizing fluid motion in RBC: the Rayleigh number R...

in the present study, natural convective heat transfer in a partitioned square cavity utilizing nanofluids is studied. the vertical left and right walls are considered as the hot and cold walls, respectively and the partitions assumed to be adiabatic. the nanofluid used in this study is al2o3 with the volume fraction of 20%. it is assumed that nanofluid is a single phase fluid. fluent 6.3.26 is...

In this paper natural convection heat transfer within a two-dimensional, horizontal, concentric cam shape cylinders that is partially filled with a fluid saturated porous medium has been investigated. both cylinder are kept at constant and uniform temperatures with the outer cylinder being subjected relatively lower than the inner one. In addition the forchheimer and brinkman effect are taken i...

Please cite this article in press as: M. Sankar et a Mass Transfer (2012), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016 Double-diffusive convection in a vertical annulus filled with a fluid-saturated porous medium is numerically investigated with the aim to understand the effects of a discrete source of heat and solute on the fluid flow and heat and mass transfer rates. The porous annulus is subject to heat and m...

cp heat capacity dx distance between two points after time t dX original infinitesimal distance between two points D stretching tensor Di dissipation number ĝ gravity vector h depth of convecting layer H(r) two-particle correlation function P dynamic pressure Ra thermal Rayleigh number t time T temperature ui components of the velocity tensor v velocity w upward velocity a thermal expansivity _...