Heatlines: Modeling, visualization, mixing and thermal management

T Basak, D Das, P Biswal - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2018 - Elsevier
The bulk motion of fluid and diffusive transport within fluid are two processes during natural
or forced convection. The complexity of the convective heat flow is realized since last few …

Heatlines and thermal management analysis for natural convection within inclined porous square cavities

AK Singh, T Basak, A Nag, S Roy - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2015 - Elsevier
Heatline concept has been used in order to estimate thermal performance of various energy
related systems. Heatlines and streamlines are found to be adequate to visualize and …

Effect of undulations on the natural convection heat transfer and entropy generation inside a porous right-angled triangular enclosure

S Bhardwaj, A Dalal - Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In the present study, natural convection in a two-dimensional porous right-angled triangular
enclosure with one wavy wall is studied numerically. Three cases with one, two, and three …

Analysis of efficiency of convection in porous geometries (square vs triangular) with multiple discrete heaters on walls: a heatline perspective

D Das, L Lukose, T Basak - … Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & …, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to study natural convection within porous square and
triangular geometries (design 1: regular isosceles triangle, design 2: inverted isosceles …

Analysis of entropy generation during conjugate natural convection within a square cavity with various location of wall thickness

T Basak, AK Singh… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2014 - ACS Publications
One of the important objectives in thermal systems engineering is to analyze utilization of
thermal energy in an efficient manner. Analysis based on second law of thermodynamics …

External natural convection

DA Nield, A Bejan, DA Nield, A Bejan - Convection in Porous Media, 2017 - Springer
Numerical calculation from the full differential equations for convection in an unbounded
region is expensive, and hence approximate solutions are important. For small values of the …