Direct numerical simulations of unsteady natural convection in a differentially heated cavity with a thin fin of different lengths on a sidewall at the Raleigh number of 3.8 × 10 are performed. It is found that the fin length significantly impacts on the transient thermal flow around the fin and heat transfer through the finned sidewall in the early stage of the transient flow development. The ...

in this work a numerical study of thermal and fluid dynamics behavior of natural air convection in a square cavity in a laminar flow is presented, by finite volume method. the square cavity has two walls heated with different temperatures and two isolated walls. the numerical simulation is made up of several rayleigh numbers to . flow and isotherm lines are presented and analyzed. the numerical...

Carbon dioxide injection into deep saline aquifers is an important option for managing CO2 emissions. Injected CO2 dissolves into formation brines from above, increasing brine density and creating an unstable hydrodynamic state favorable for natural convection. Long-term buoyancy-driven flow of high-density CO2-saturated brine leads to faster trapping through improved dissolution and can reduce...

In this paper a transient free convection flow around a sphere with variable surface temperature and embedded in a porous medium has been considered. The temperature of the sphere is suddenly raised and subsequently maintained at values that varies with position on surface. The method of asymptotic expansions is applied for small Rayleigh numbers and then a finite-difference scheme is used to s...

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...

steady state natural convection of al2o3-water nanofluid inside a square cavity filled with a porous medium is investigated numerically. the temperatures of the two side walls of the cavity are maintained at th and tc, where tc has been considered as the reference condition. the top and the bottom horizontal walls have been considered to be insulated i.e., non-conducting and impermeable to mass...

in this study, the natural convection heat transfer of variable properties al2o3-eg-water nanofluid in a differentially heated rectangular cavity has been investigated numerically. the governing equations, for a newtonian fluid, have been solved numerically with a finite volume approach. the influences of the pertinent parameters such as ra in the range of 103-107 and volume fraction of nanopar...

peltier technology opens new opportunities for specialapplications. in the current project, this technology was appliedto design and fabricate a portable thermoelectric beveragecooler and thermoelectric cup. the simulation and results of theexperiment showed that the common beverage cooler is not asuitable design for ignoring the effect of natural convection incooling. in our thermoelectric cup...