TY - GEN
T1 - The effect of vertical and horizontal partitions on natural convection in a heated enclosure
AU - Kruger, Sunita
AU - Pretorius, Leon
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this paper, turbulent buoyancy induced convection in a partitioned square cavity with conducting baffles is numerically investigated to determine overall heat transfer performance. The finite volume method using polyhedral cells is used to solve the governing mass, momentum and energy equations and to predict the flow patterns and heat transfer in the cavity. The cavity consisted of two adiabatic vertical walls, an isothermal horizontal wall located at the bottom at Th and the top wall isothermal at Tc. The configuration was investigated for Ra = 9.1 x 107 to Ra = 1.9 x 109 (turbulent). The conducting baffles are assigned various values of effective thermal resistances, calculated using thermal conductivity. The effects of these conducting baffles and their effective thermal resistance are shown in terms of temperature and velocity contour plots and average Nusselt number. Results indicated that the presence of baffles influenced the heat transfer from the hot wall considerably, and it was concluded that a partitioned enclosure containing conducting partitions can be used to represent an enclosed greenhouse containing raised benches with single/multiple racks
AB - In this paper, turbulent buoyancy induced convection in a partitioned square cavity with conducting baffles is numerically investigated to determine overall heat transfer performance. The finite volume method using polyhedral cells is used to solve the governing mass, momentum and energy equations and to predict the flow patterns and heat transfer in the cavity. The cavity consisted of two adiabatic vertical walls, an isothermal horizontal wall located at the bottom at Th and the top wall isothermal at Tc. The configuration was investigated for Ra = 9.1 x 107 to Ra = 1.9 x 109 (turbulent). The conducting baffles are assigned various values of effective thermal resistances, calculated using thermal conductivity. The effects of these conducting baffles and their effective thermal resistance are shown in terms of temperature and velocity contour plots and average Nusselt number. Results indicated that the presence of baffles influenced the heat transfer from the hot wall considerably, and it was concluded that a partitioned enclosure containing conducting partitions can be used to represent an enclosed greenhouse containing raised benches with single/multiple racks
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U2 - 10.1115/HT2013-17439
DO - 10.1115/HT2013-17439
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84892963988
SN - 9780791855508
T3 - ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conf. Collocated with the ASME 2013 7th Int. Conf. on Energy Sustainability and the ASME 2013 11th Int. Conf. on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, HT 2013
BT - ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conf. Collocated with the ASME 2013 7th Int. Conf. on Energy Sustainability and the ASME 2013 11th Int. Conf. on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, HT 2013
T2 - ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conference, HT 2013 Collocated with the ASME 2013 7th International Conference on Energy Sustainability and the ASME 2013 11th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology
Y2 - 14 July 2013 through 19 July 2013
ER -