Convective Heat Transfer in a Square Cavity with a Heat-Generating Body of Different Aspect Ratios

Samuel I Afolabi Samuel I Afolabi

doi:10.17577/ijertv8is060409

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Convective Heat Transfer in a Square Cavity with a Heat-Generating Body of Different Aspect Ratios - written by Samuel I. Afolabi , Anthony O. Ojo , Modupe A. Oluleye published on 2019/06/18 download full article with reference data and citations

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Convective flow and heat transfer in a square cavity have been extensively investigated for decades [1]
Natural convection in a square cavity was investigated using a high-resolution finite difference method (FDM) [6], with the study showing how increasing internal heat generation affects the thermal energy in the cavity
Reference [8] examined the effect of uniform and non-uniform wall temperatures on convection in square enclosure using Galerkin Finite Element Method (FEM)

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Convective flow and heat transfer in a square cavity have been extensively investigated for decades [1]. Natural convection finds wide usage in the nuclear reactors, heating, ventilation, air-conditioning (HVAC) systems, and in various applications like solar collectors, cooling of mechanical parts and in thermal storage facilities [2, 3, 4]. Reference [10] studied the convective flow and heat transfer phenomena in a cavity with differentially heated side walls at different Rayleigh numbers ( ). Reference [1] studied natural convection in a square cavity with a non-uniformly heated bottom wall and a square shape heated body and it was shown that both temperature and flow distribution in the cavity hinge on both the strength of the magnetic field and Rayleigh number

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