In this paper, the turbulent natural convection heat transfer and fluid flow inside a square enclosure having two conducting solid baffles has been numerically investigated. Fully elliptic Navier-Stockes and energy equations are disrectized using finite volume method along with a staggered grid techniques. The resulting algebraic equations were solved by using semi-implicit line by line Guase elimination scheme. The effect of turbulence was incorporated to treat the regions near the walls. The flow and thermal fields are investigated for different parameters such as the relative baffles height, Rayleigh number and the distance between baffles. The conducted results indicated that the resulting vortices are decreased in number and elongated with the decrease of the dimensionless relative baffle heights. Also the results show that the rate of heat transfer is increased with the increase of Ra especially for the region near the baffles.
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2010 14th International Heat Transfer Conference
August 8–13, 2010
Washington, DC, USA
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Turbulent Natural Convection Inside a Square Enclosure With Baffles
Khudheyer S. Mushatet
Khudheyer S. Mushatet
Thiqar University, Nassiriya, Iraq
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Khudheyer S. Mushatet
Thiqar University, Nassiriya, Iraq
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IHTC14-23397, pp. 193-201; 9 pages
Published Online:
March 1, 2011
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Mushatet, KS. "Turbulent Natural Convection Inside a Square Enclosure With Baffles." Proceedings of the 2010 14th International Heat Transfer Conference. 2010 14th International Heat Transfer Conference, Volume 7. Washington, DC, USA. August 8–13, 2010. pp. 193-201. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/IHTC14-23397
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