Numerical Simulation on Mixed Convection Flow within Triangular Enclosures Having Heatline Concept

Abstract

This paper is conducted to investigate mixed convection flow within triangular enclosures having heatline concept. Here the left vertical wall which is moving from the bottom corner of the enclosure is also kept at a uniform constant cold temperature and the bottom wall is heat generating, while the other inclined wall is adiabatic. A finite element analysis is performed for solving the governing equations which are discretized by Galerkin weighted residual method of finite element formulation. The present numerical procedure adopted in this investigation yields consistent performance over a wide range of parameters Prandtl number, Pr (Pr = 0.71 6) varying Rayleigh number (Ra) from 10 3 to 10 4 while Reynolds number, Re (Re = 50) is fixed. The Result also indicates streamlines, isotherms, average Nusselt number along the hot wall, average temperature of the fluid in the enclosure. The computational results also indicate that the average Nusselt number at the hot wall of the Enclosure is depending on the dimensionless parameters.