Natural convection in a truncated circular sector of porous medium

✍ Scribed by I. Pop; F.C. Lai

• Book ID: 103911708
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 340 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0735-1933
• DOI: 10.1016/0735-1933(90)90025-f

✦ Synopsis

Communicated by J.P. Hartnett and W.J. Minkowycz) Numerical results are presented for steady-state natural convection in a truncated circular sector of porous medium. Emphasis is placed on the effect of inclination on the buoyancy-induced flows in such a geometry. Two-dimensional natural convective fields for a range of Rayleigh numbers, up to I000, and sector inclined angles, 0 to 180 deg, are investigated. Heat transfer results in terms of the relation between Nusselt numbers, Rayleigh numbers and inclined angles are presented.