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Natural Convection in an Inclined T-Shaped Cavity

Hicham Rouijaa¹, Mustapha El Alami², El Alami Semma³, Mostafa Najam²

1 Cadi Ayyad university, Poly-disciplinary Faculty of Safi, Morocco; hrouijaa@hotmail.com
2 Thermal Group, Physics department, Faculty of Sciences Ain Chock, Hassan II, University Casablanca, BP. 5366 Maarif, Morocco; m.elalami@fsac.ac.ma ; elalami_m@hotmail.com
3 Technical Faculty of des Sciences, Hassan 1^th University, BP. 577 Settat, Morocco. Corresponding author: semmaalam@yahoo.fr

Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing 2011, 7(1), 57-70. https://doi.org/10.3970/fdmp.2011.007.057

Abstract

This article presents a numerical study on natural convection in a bidimensional inclined "T"-shaped cavity. The governing equations are solved in the framework of a control-volume method resorting to the SIMPLEC algorithm (for the treatment of pressure-velocity coupling). Special emphasis is given to the investigation of the effect of inclination on the heat transfer and mass flow rate. Results are discussed for Prandtl number Pr=0.72, geometry with: opening width C=0.15, blocks gap D=0.5, blocks height, B=0.5 and different values of the Rayleigh number (10⁴ ≤ Ra ≤ 10⁶).

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