Abstract
In some regions with a specific climate, summer comfort in the rooms located below the roof becomes critical if the roof system is not well designed. In order to analyze the efficiency of this system a numerical model was developed. This model is based on the study of the natural convection coupled with radiative heat transfer in an inclined air channel. The configuration studied is an inclined channel formed by two parallel plates. The upper and lower plates were maintained at fixed temperatures. The air flow in the channel which is due to the buoyancy forces is fully turbulent and the turbulence was modeled by using the k‐ε model. Some numerical results obtained were validated using the experimental works of Khedari and colleagues and those of Nouanégué and colleagues. The effect of physical and geometrical parameters and the radiative heat transfer on the channel behavior is shown. Correlations for Nusselt numbers and air flow rate were obtained as functions of the geometric parameters and the Rayleigh number. These correlations can be used in other models that represent this system.
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