Abstract
In this chapter, the effects of surface inclination and of flow interaction between two adjacent horizontal surfaces on the natural convective heat transfer rate are considered. The results indicate that the form of the variation of the Nusselt number for an inclined isothermal square surface with the angle of inclination is different for inclination angles of less than roughly 3o than it is for larger angles of inclination. The results also indicate that for a pair of adjacent horizontal square-heated surfaces, the magnitude of the dimensionless size of the gap between the horizontal surfaces has a relatively small effect on the heat transfer rates from the two heated surfaces. The results also indicate that the form of the variation of the mean heated surface Nusselt number with the dimensionless gap between the horizontal surfaces is strongly dependent on the Rayleigh number value.
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