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NUMERICAL HEAT TRANSFER PART A-APPLICATIONS
Volume 49, Issue 7, Pages 683-697Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/10407780500359943
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Laminar natural convection in a two-dimensional square cavity filled with a pure air (Pr = 0.71) is studied numerically in the present article with nonuniform side-wall temperature. The heated vertical wall is assumed to have spatial sinusoidal temperature variations about a constant mean value, which is higher than the cold side-wall temperature, while the top and the bottom walls are adiabatic. A finite-volume method is used to solve numerically the nondimensional governing equations in the vorticity - stream function formulation. The effects of the amplitude and the wave number of the heated side-wall temperature variation on the natural convection in the cavity are investigated. It is found that the average Nusselt number varies based on the hot-wall temperature. It increases with an increase in the amplitude, while the maximum average Nusselt number occurs at the wave number of k = 0.7 for Rayleigh number range 10(3) <= Ra <= 10(6). It is found that the values of maximum fluid circulation occur at a similar wave number, which produces maximum heat transfer for small values of Ra, while it occurs at higher values of wave number at high Ra.
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