...Xundan Shi, Graduate Student; J. M. Khodadadi, Professor A finite-volume-based computational study of steady laminar natural convection (using Boussinesq approximation) within a differentially heated square cavity due to the presence of a single thin fin is presented. Attachment of highly...

...Xundan Shi, Graduate Student; J. M. Khodadadi, Professor A finite-volume-based computational study of steady laminar flow and heat transfer (neglecting natural convection) within a lid-driven square cavity due to a single thin fin is presented. The lid moves from left to right and a fixed thin fin...

..., and merging criteria, as well as surface cavity size characterization. It is postulated that for liquid/solid interface temperatures at and above the LFP, a sufficient number of cavities (about 20 percent) are activated and the bubble growth rates are sufficiently fast that a continuous vapor layer...

...Chunmei Xia; Jayathi Y. Murthy A numerical investigation has been conducted of flow transitions in deep three-dimensional cavities heated from below. The first critical Rayleigh number, Ra I , below which the flow is at rest, and the second critical Rayleigh number, Ra II , for transition from...

... was numerically studied by Yan and Lin 16 . Results for an open ended channel as a limiting case were presented by Chadwick et al. 17 in an experimental study on air natural convection in a vertically vented cavity with two flush-mounted strip heat...

...-dimensional rectangular cavity. They assumed that both surfaces of a partition wall had same temperature but heat was transferred through the partition wall. This assumption is also employed in the earlier paper by Meyer et al. 8 . In this model, the thermal boundary condition on the partition wall can...

... Technical Editor: P. Ayyaswamy. 01 Oct 1999 04 Apr 2000 natural convection thermal conductivity liquid metals liquid alloys magnetohydrodynamics confined flow Cavities Finite Difference Heat Transfer Liquid Metals Natural Convection Proper selection of coolant...

...-left corner and due to skew-symmetry of the problem at the upper-right corner. [S0022-1481(00)00402-3] Cavities Heat Transfer Natural Convection Nonequilibrium Porous Media Natural convection in an enclosure filled with a saturated porous matrix is a fundamental problem, with many...

...M. M. Elsayed; W. Chakroun Free convection from a square, tilted partially open cavity was investigated experimentally. The experiment was carried out to study the effect of the aperture geometry on the heat transfer between the cavity and the surrounding air. Four different geometrical...

... in Cartesian coordinates. The velocity fields are also modeled using the diagonal Cartesian method. The transport equations are discretized with the finite analytic (FA) method. The current work is validated by simulating a rotated lid-driven cavity flow with conjugate heat transfer, and accurate results...