Convecção natural em uma cavidade aberta para um canal

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1999

RESUMO

In this work the problem of natural convection in a rectangular open cavity with and without the presence of a shrouding wall has been analysed. One vertical wall is heated and the horizontal walls are adiabatic. The other vertical wall is open to the ambient or a fluid reservoir. That is the opening. A shrouding wall is placed in front of this open wall forming a vertical open channel. Two different boundary conditions are analysed for the shrouding wall: isothermal or adiabatic. The aspect ratio effect B = L/H of the open cavity has been defined such as 0.5, 1.0, 3.0 e 6.0, where L is the width and H is the cavity height. The Rayleigh number ranged from 103 to 107 and the Prandtl number was mantained at 1.0. The influence of the aspect ratio of the cavity and the boundary conditions of the shrouding wall on the Nusselt number is analysed, and the flow pattern under steady state conditions is determined. The numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations have been obtained using the Finite Volume Method for the spatial discretization, and the SOLA method for the time discretization. The Power-Law scheme was used to obtain the convective and diffusive terms of the Navier-Stokes and Energy equations. There are two distincts regions in the Ra x b/H domain, where b/H is the dimensionless distance between the vertical walls of the channel: the channel flow and the cavity flow. When the flow is present in the channel, the effect of the boundary condition on the shrouding wall on the average Nusselt number is small. For the flow restricted into the cavity, the boundary condition on the shrouding wall becomes important. When the aspect ratio B increases and the Rayleigh number is little than 104, the convection becomes less important. The same occurs when the shrouding wall is too close from the opening. The scale analysis method is used to clarify the results when possible

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navier-stokes calor - convecção natural calor - transmissão equações de

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