Toufik Arrif1,2, Abdelmadjid Chehhat3,4,*, Essam Abo-Serie5, Adel Benchabane2
FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.14, No.4, pp. 223-242, 2018, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2018.01799
Abstract This work presents a numerical investigation on heat transfer and fluid-dynamic aspects for a solar open cavities in an extended fluid flow domain. The vertical wall inside the open cavities facing the aperture is assumed to be isothermal while the other walls are kept insulated. Heat transfer steady laminar natural convection is studied by solving the non-dimensional governing equations of mass, momentum and energy in the framework of a finite volume method. The analysis are carried out under Rayleigh number range of 9.41×105 to 3.76×106, inclination 0° to 90° and opening ratio 0.25, 0.5 and 1.… More >