The effects of tilt, skew and roll on natural convection in a slender, laterally-heated cavity

✍ Scribed by G.S.H. Lock; J.-C. Han

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 936 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-7177
• DOI: 10.1016/0895-7177(90)90030-q

✦ Synopsis

The paper is concerned with the laminar, natural convection of air in a slender, laterally-heated square-section cavity situated in a uniform gravitational field. With an aspect ratio of 5 : 1 and Ra = 104, consideration is given to the flow structure and heat transfer rate obtained when the orientation of the cavity is changed about three mutually-perpendicular axes: specifically as the result of tilting, skewing and rolling. The study is undertaken in numerical form and serves two main purposes: to extend the data and observations of others who have treated three-dimensional stable conditions; and to explore the multiplicity of solutions when the heated surface is underneath and close to horizontal.