Height Partition Effect on Combined Mixed Convection and Surface Radiation in a Vented Rectangular Cavity

Authors

1 Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Polydisciplinary Faculty, Physics Department, Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Research in Sciences and Technologies (LIRST), B. P. 523, Béni-Mellal 23000, Morocco

2 Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, Physics Department, Laboratory of Flows and Transfers Modelling (LAMET), B. P. 523, Béni-Mellal 23000, Morocco

3 Cadi Ayyad University, Faculty of Sciences Semlalia, Physics Department, Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and Energetics (LMFE), B.P. 2390, Marrakech, Morocco

Abstract

The present paper reports numerical results of mixed convection and surface radiation within a horizontal ventilated cavity heated from below and provided with an adiabatic thin partition on the heated surface. Air, a radiatively transparent medium, is considered to be the cooling fluid. The effect of the governing parameters, which are the Reynolds number, 200 Re 5000, the relative height of the baffle, 0 Hb 0.75, and the emissivity of the walls, 0 1, on the fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics is studied in detail. The maximum and mean temperatures, the ratio, QE/QL, of the heat quantities leaving the cavity through the exit, QE, and through the left vertical cold side, QL, are also presented versus the above controlling parameters.

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Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics
Volume 4, Issue 1
February 2012
Pages 89-96

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