An empirical solution to turbulent natural convection and radiation heat transfer in square and rectangular enclosures

A. K.A. Shati*, S. G. Blakey, S. B.M. Beck

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Abstract

The effects of natural turbulent convection with the interaction of surface radiation in a rectangular enclosure have previously been numerically and theoretically studied. The analyses were carried out over a wide range of enclosure aspect ratios ranging from 0.0625 to 16, different enclosure sizes, with cold wall temperatures ranging from 283 to 373 K, and temperature ratios ranging from 1.02 to 2.61. The work was carried out using four fluids (Argon, Air, Helium and Hydrogen; whose properties vary with temperature). These can be used to calculate Nusselt number for pure natural convection and also to calculate the ratio between convection to radiation heat transfer for both square and rectangular enclosures. This work extends these results by providing an empirical solution for the case of radiation and natural convection in square and rectangular enclosures and also provides a correlation equation to calculate the total Nusselt number for these cases. This method allows the simple calculation of either the total heat transfer rate, given the fluid, the geometry and the temperatures of the hot and cold walls, or via a straightforward iterative technique, the temperature of one wall given the other wall temperature and the total heat transfer.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)364-370
Number of pages7
JournalApplied Thermal Engineering
Volume51
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

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Keywords

  • Aspect ratio
  • Heat transfer
  • Natural convection
  • Radiation interaction
  • Rectangular enclosures
  • Turbulence

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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