Turbulent natural convection heat transfer in rectangular enclosures using experimental and numerical approaches: A review

IV Miroshnichenko, MA Sheremet - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Natural convection is one of the most important modes of fluid flow and heat transfer. This
paper presents a review of the research on turbulent natural convection in rectangular …

Investigation of nanofluid mixed convection in a shallow cavity using a two-phase mixture model

M Goodarzi, MR Safaei, K Vafai, G Ahmadi… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Laminar and turbulent mixed convection heat transfer of water/Cu nanofluids in a
rectangular shallow cavity was studied utilizing a two-phase mixture model. The upper …

Numerical simulation of turbulent natural convection in a rectangular enclosure having finite thickness walls

GV Kuznetsov, MA Sheremet - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2010 - Elsevier
Turbulent natural convection in a rectangular enclosure having finite thickness heat-
conducting walls at local heating at the bottom of the cavity provided that convective …

CFD investigation of a new flat plate collector with additional front side transparent insulation for use in cold regions

L Zhou, Y Wang, Q Huang - Renewable Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
In cold environments, flat plate solar collectors are of limited value because high heat losses
lead to low efficiency. The integration of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) sheet into flat …

Resolving the stratification discrepancy of turbulent natural convection in differentially heated air-filled cavities. Part III: A full convection–conduction–surface radiation …

S Xin, J Salat, P Joubert, A Sergent, F Penot… - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
The present study concerns an air-filled differentially heated cavity of 1m× 0.32 m× 1m
(width× depth× height) subject to a temperature difference of 15K and is motivated by the …

Parametric study on the effect of radiant heating system on indoor thermal comfort with/without external thermal disturbance

X Xie, F Xia, Y Zhao, B Xu, Y Wang, G Pei - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
For radiant heating system, less concern has been given to the fact that supply water
temperatures are determined according to local conditions, and it is unclear how surface …

Radiation effect on conjugate turbulent natural convection in a cavity with a discrete heater

IV Miroshnichenko, MA Sheremet - Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2018 - Elsevier
A numerical study of a conjugate turbulent natural convection with thermal surface radiation
inside a square cavity with heat-conducting solid walls and a local heat source has been …

Numerical modeling of turbulence mixed convection heat transfer in air filled enclosures by finite volume method

M Safaei, M Mohammadi - The International …, 2011 - themultiphysicsjournal.com
In the present study, first the turbulent natural convection and then laminar mixed convection
of air flow was solved in a room and the calculated outcomes are compared with results of …

Coupling turbulent natural convection-radiation-conduction in differentially heated cavity with high aspect ratio

N Benyahia, M Aksouh, A Mataoui, HF Oztop - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, the effect of a several combined heat transfer processes: turbulent natural
convection, surface radiation and conduction, are investigated numerically in an air-filled …

Assessment of RANS and LES turbulence models for natural convection in a differentially heated square cavity

CE Clifford, ML Kimber - Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Development of computationally efficient modeling techniques for thermally driven
buoyant flows remains an ongoing challenge for the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) …