Numerically investigation of Flow and Heat Transfer in differentially heated enclosures

Numerically investigation of Flow and Heat Transfer in differentially heated enclosures 

Pranamya Bummerkar ¹, Ritesh Kumar Dewangan ²

¹M. Tech.  Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rungta College of Engineering & Technology, Raipur (C.G) - India

²Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rungta College of Engineering & Technology, Raipur (C.G) – India

Abstract: In this research work natural convection in two dimensional cavity is studied numerically for differently heated air filled square and rectangular cavity. Vertical cavity with two adiabatic and hot and cold wall with different aspect ratio of 1, 2.5, 5, 7.5 and 10 has taken for investigation. the heat transfer was investigated over the wide range of Rayleigh number from 10³ to 10⁶ . Solutions are obtained for several Rayleigh numbers with Prandtl number Pr = 0.70 and aspect ratio 1, 2.5, 5, 7.5 and 10. The Pressure-Velocity Coupling Method used with Non-Iterative Time Advancement (NITA) scheme used to solve the problem. Flow patterns and isotherm plots were used to display the results, and for every case, local and mean Nusselt values were also produced. The results show that an increase in Rayleigh numbers greatly increases heat transfer, natural convection intensity, and average Nusselt number at a particular aspect ratio. The distribution of temperature and stream function are taken as a function of thermal and geometrical output parameter for given problem. Two stage investigations have been performed to find out the variation in the result between different approaches.

Keyword: ANN (average Nusselt number), AR (aspect ratio), LNN (local Nusselt number), Nu (Nusselt number), Pr (Prandtl number), Ra (Rayleigh number).