Studies on natural convection within enclosures of various (non-square) shapes–A review

D Das, M Roy, T Basak - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2017 - Elsevier
Natural convection in an enclosure (internal convection) is an important problem due to its
significant practical applications. In energy related applications, natural convection plays a …

A comprehensive review and comparison on heatline concept and field synergy principle

WQ Tao, YL He, L Chen - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2019 - Elsevier
A comprehensive review and comparison on heatline concept and field synergy principle
have been made based on more than two hundreds of related publications. The major …

[PDF][PDF] Natural Convection Heat Transfer for Adiabatic Circular Cylinder Inside Trapezoidal Enclosure Filled with Nanofluid Superposed Porous-Nanofluid Layer.

IM Abed, A Abdulkadhim, RA Hamzah… - FME …, 2020 - academia.edu
Heat transfer by natural convection for a centered inner adiabatic circular cylinder inside a
trapezoidal enclosure filled with Ag–water nanofluid superposed saturated porous …

Free convection cooling in modified L-shape enclosures using copper–water nanofluid

M Saidi, G Karimi - Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
The aim of the present study is investigation of free convection cooling in an L-shape
enclosure filled with copper–water nanofluid. The governing equations are solved …

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 …

Role of distributed/discrete solar heaters during natural convection in the square and triangular cavities: CFD and heatline simulations

D Das, T Basak - Solar Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Solar heating has gained significant attention for various material processing applications
and the current work focuses on the discrete solar heating of fluids involving natural …

Sensitivity of heatfunction boundary conditions on invariance of Bejan's heatlines for natural convection in enclosures with various wall heatings

P Biswal, T Basak - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2015 - Elsevier
Current work attempts to study the heatline patterns during natural convection for different
types of Dirichlet heatfunction boundary conditions. The enclosures with various shapes …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical investigation of a MHD natural convection heat transfer flow in a square enclosure with two heaters on the bottom wall

N Askari, MH Taheri - Karafan Journal, 2020 - karafan.nus.ac.ir
In the present study, the thermal behavior of fluid in a square enclosure with two semi-
circular constantis investigated numerically. The governing equations are solved by …

Numerical heat flow visualization analysis on enhanced thermal processing for various shapes of containers during thermal convection

L Lukose, T Basak - International Journal of Numerical Methods for …, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to study thermal (natural) convection in nine different
containers involving the same area (area= 1 sq. unit) and identical heat input at the bottom …

Role of multiple discrete heaters to minimize entropy generation during natural convection in fluid filled square and triangular enclosures

D Das, L Lukose, T Basak - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2018 - Elsevier
The discrete heating strategy has been identified as an energy efficient method. The current
work is aimed at achieving a thermally efficient triangular-design 1 (regular isosceles …