Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NUMERICAL METHODS FOR HEAT & FLUID FLOW
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 624-640Publisher
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1108/HFF-02-2017-0059
Keywords
Numerical results; Natural convection; Thermal radiation; Viscoelastic fluid; Square cavity
Funding
- Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation [13.6542.2017/6.7]
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study natural convective heat transfer and viscoelastic fluid flow in a differentially heated square cavity under the effect of thermal radiation. Design/methodology/approach The cavity filled with a viscoelastic fluid is heated uniformly from the left wall and cooled from the right side while insulated from horizontal walls. Governing partial differential equations formulated in non-dimensional stream function, vorticity and temperature with corresponding boundary conditions have been solved by finite difference method of second order accuracy. The effects of Rayleigh number (Ra = 1e+3-1e+5), radiation parameter (R-d = 0 - 10), Prandtl number (Pr = 1 - 30) and elastic number (E = 0.0001 - 0.001) on flow patterns, temperature fields, average Nusselt number at hot vertical wall and rate of fluid flow have been studied. Findings It has been found that a growth of elastic number leads to the heat transfer reduction and convective flow attenuation. The heat conduction is a dominating heat transfer mechanism for high values of radiation parameter. Originality/value The originality of this work is to analyze heat transfer and fluid flow of a viscoelastic fluid inside a differentially heated cavity. The results would benefit scientists and engineers to become familiar with the flow and heat behavior of non-Newtonian fluids, and the way to predict the properties of this flow for possibility of using viscoelastic fluids in compact heat exchangers, electronic cooling systems, polymer engineering, etc.
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