A numerical study on the effect of a heated hollow cylinder on mixed convection in a ventilated cavity

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1326-1334

  Mamun, M A H ^a   Rahman, M M ^b   Billah, M M ^c   Saidur, R ^d  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^c INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY CHITTAGONG   (Bangladesh)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Hollow cylinder; Mixed convection and Galerkin weighted residual method; Ventilated cavity

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER; COUPLED EQUATION; CYLINDER DIAMETERS; FLUID TEMPERATURES; GALERKIN WEIGHTED RESIDUAL METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; HOLLOW CYLINDERS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PRACTICAL SYSTEMS; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SQUARE CAVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY RATIO; THERMAL FIELD; VENTILATED CAVITIES;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUIDS; GALERKIN METHODS; INLET FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXED CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; THERMOANALYSIS; VENTILATION;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES);

EID: 77957837400     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2010.07.019     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. House J.M., Beckermann C., Smith T.F. Effect of a Centered Conducting Body on Natural Convection Heat Transfer in an Enclosure. Numer. Heat Transfer A 1990, 18:213-225.
2. Lacroix M. Natural convection heat transfer around two heated horizontal cylinders inside a rectangular cavity cooled from above. Numer. Heat Transfer A 1992, 21:37-54.
3. Lacroix M., Joyeux A. Natural convection heat transfer around heated cylinders inside a cavity with conducting walls. Numer. Heat Transfer A 1995, 27:335-349.
4. Ha M.Y., Jung M.J., Kim Y.S. Numerical study on transient heat transfer and fluid flow of natural convection in an enclosure with a heat-generating conducting body. Numer. Heat Transfer A 1999, 35:415-434.
5. Ha M.Y., Jung M.J. A numerical study on three-dimensional conjugate heat transfer of natural convection and conduction in a differentially heated cubic enclosure with a heat-generating cubic conducting body. Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 2000, 43:4229-4248.
6. Roychowdhury D.G., Das S.K., Sundararajan T.S. Numerical simulation of natural convection heat transfer and fluid flow around a heated cylinder inside an enclosure. Heat Mass Transf. 2002, 38:565-576.
7. Dong S.F., Li Y.T. Conjugate of natural convection and conduction in a complicated enclosure. Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 2004, 47:2233-2239.
8. Tasnim S.H., Collins M.R. Numerical analysis of heat transfer in a square cavity with a baffle on the hot wall. Int. Commun. Heat Transfer 2004, 31(5):639-650.
9. Braga E.J., de Lemos M.J.S. Laminar natural convection in cavities filed with circular and square rods. Int. Commun. Heat Mass Transfer 2005, 32:1289-1297.
10. Bhave P., Narasimhan A., Ress D.A.S. Natural convection heat transfer enhancement using adiabatic block: Optimal block size and Prandtl number effect. Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 2006, 49:3807-3818.
11. Kumar De A., Dalal A. A numerical study of natural convection around a square, horizontal, heated cylinder placed in an enclosure. Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 2006, 49:4608-4623.
12. Hsu T.H., Hsu P.T., How S.P. Mixed convection in a partially divided rectangular enclosure. Numer. Heat Transfer A 1997, 31:655-683.
13. How S.P., Hsu T.H. Transient mixed convection in a partially divided enclosure. Comput. Math. Appl. 1998, 36:95-115.
14. Hsu T.H., How S.P. Mixed convection in an enclosure with a heat-conducting body. Acta Mech. 1999, 133:87-104.
15. Rahman M.M., Alim M.A., Saha S., Chowdhury M.K. A Numerical Study of Mixed Convection in A Square Cavity with A Heat Conducting Square Cylinder at Different Locations. J. Mech. Eng. 2008, 39(2):78-85. (The Institution of Engineers Bangladesh ME).
16. Rahman M.M., Alim M.A., Saha S., Chowdhury M.K. Mixed Convection in a vented Square Cavity with a Heat Conducting Horizontal Solid Circular Cylinder. J. Nav. Arch. Mar. Eng. 2008, 5(2):37-46.
17. Rahman M.M., Alim M.A., Mamun M.A.H. Finite element analysis of mixed convection in a rectangular cavity with a heat-conducting horizontal circular cylinder, Nonlinear analysis. Model. Control 2009, 14(2):217-247.
18. Zienkiewicz O.C., Taylor R.L. The finite element method 1991, McGraw-Hill. fourth ed.