Numerical Analysis of Laminar Natural Convection in a Quadrantal Cavity with a Solid Adiabatic Fin Attached to the Hot Vertical Wall

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Agartala, India

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Numerical analysis of laminar natural convection in a quadrantal cavity filled with water having finned hot and cold on adjacent walls have been made to examine heat and fluid flow. Numerical solutions are obtained using a commercial computational fluid dynamics package, FLUENT, using the finite volume method. Effects of the Rayleigh number, Ra, non-dimensional fin location and non-dimensional fin length on the Nusselt number, Nu, as well as stream function and temperature fields are investigated for the range of Ra from 104 to 107.

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Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics
Volume 6, Issue 4
October 2013
Pages 501-510

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