Study of turbulent natural convection coupled with thermal radiation in a vertical cavity having a large form factor

Heat Transfer ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-157
Author(s):  
Imène Rahmoune ◽  
Saadi Bougoul





2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Xamán ◽  
J. F. Hinojosa ◽  
J. J. Flores ◽  
R. E. Cabanillas




2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (10) ◽  
pp. 1153-1170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anil Kumar Sharma ◽  
K. Velusamy ◽  
C. Balaji


2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (05) ◽  
pp. 2050065
Author(s):  
J. M. A. Navarro ◽  
J. F. Hinojosa ◽  
I. Hernández-López

This paper reports a computational fluid dynamics and experimental study to analyze the effect of surface thermal radiation on the turbulent natural convection in a closed cubic cavity. Experimental and numerical results are compared for low and high wall emissivities. Experimental temperature profiles were obtained at six different depths and heights consisting of 14 thermocouples each. Several turbulence models were evaluated against experimental data. It was found that renormalized [Formula: see text]-[Formula: see text] and standard [Formula: see text]-[Formula: see text] turbulence models present the best agreement with the experimental data for emissivities of walls of 0.98 and 0.03, respectively. Thus, the numerical results of temperature fields and flow patterns were obtained with these models. From the results, it was found that the effect of thermal radiation on experimental heat transfer coefficients is significantly, increased between 48.7% ([Formula: see text]) and 50.16% ([Formula: see text]), when the emissivity of the walls increases from 0.03 to 0.98. Therefore, the radiative exchange should not be neglected in heat transfer calculations in cubic enclosures, even if the temperature difference between heated wall and cold wall is relatively small (between 15 and 30[Formula: see text]K).



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