Abstract
Simultaneous transport of heat and moisture by conjugate natural convection in an enclosure with a solid wall and two free ports is investigated numerically. Moist air motions are driven by the external temperature and concentration differences imposed across enclosures with different ambient moisture conditions. The Prandtl number and Schmidt number used are 0.7 and 0.6 respectively. The fluid, heat and moisture transports through the cavity and solid wall are respectively analyzed using the streamlines, heatlines and masslines, and the heat and mass transfer potentials are also explained by the variations of overall Nusselt and Sherwood numbers. The numerical simulations presented here span a wide range of the main parameters (heat and mass diffusion coefficient ratios, solid wall thickness and thermal Rayleigh numbers) in the domain of aiding and opposing buoyancy-driven flows. It is shown that the heat transfer potential, mass transfer potential, and volume flow rate can be promoted or inhibited, depending strongly on the wall materials and size, thermal and moisture Rayleigh numbers.
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