Analysis of Bejan鈥檚 heatlines on visualization of heat flow and thermal mixing in tilted square cavities

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• 作者：Abhishek Kumar Singh^a ; ^{abhishek.iitm1@gmail.com} ; S. Roy^a ; ^{sjroy@iitm.ac.in} ; Tanmay Basak^b ; ^{tanmay@iitm.ac.in}
• 关键词：Penalty finite element method ; Natural convection ; Tilted square cavity ; Streamlines ; Isotherms ; Heatlines
• 刊名：International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：42_00179310
• 类别：ce
• 出版时间：May, 2012
• 卷：55
• 期：11-12
• 页码：2965-2983
• 文件大小：1639 K

摘要

This article analyzes the detailed heat transfer phenomena during natural convection within tilted square cavities with isothermally cooled walls (BC and DA) and hot wall AB is parallel to the insulated wall CD. A penalty finite element analysis with bi-quadratic elements has been used to investigate the results in terms of streamlines, isotherms and heatlines. The present numerical procedure is performed over a wide range of parameters (10³ 猢?#xA0;Ra 猢?#xA0;10⁵,0.015 猢?#xA0;Pr 猢?#xA0;1000,0掳 猢?#xA0;蠁 猢?#xA0;90掳). Secondary circulations cells are observed near corner regions of cavity for all 蠁鈥檚 at Pr = 0.015 with Ra = 10⁵. Two asymmetric flow circulation cells are found to occupy the entire cavity for 蠁 = 15掳 at Pr = 0.7 and Pr = 1000 with Ra = 10⁵. Heatlines indicate that the cavity with inclination angle 蠁 = 15掳 corresponds to large convective heat transfer from the wall AB to wall DA whereas the heat transfer to wall BC is maximum for 蠁 = 75掳. Heat transfer rates along the walls are obtained in terms of local and average Nusselt numbers and they are explained based on gradients of heatfunctions. Average Nusselt number distributions show that heat transfer rate along wall DA is larger for lower inclination angle (蠁 = 15掳) whereas maximum heat transfer rate along wall BC occur for higher inclination angle (蠁 = 75掳).