TY  - EJOU
AU  - Abbassi, Mohamed Ammar 
AU  - Halouani, Kamel 
AU  - Chesneau, Xavier 
AU  - Zeghmati, Belkacem 

TI  - Combined Thermal Radiation and Laminar Mixed Convection in a Square Open Enclosure with Inlet and Outlet Ports
T2  - Fluid Dynamics \& Materials Processing

PY  - 2011
VL  - 7
IS  - 1
SN  - 1555-2578

AB  - Mixed convection inside a square cavity with inlet and outlet ports is numerically simulated considering thermal radiation effect. The non dimensional transfer equations, based on Boussinesq assumption and the radiative heat transfer equation are solved by the finite-volume-method and the TDMA algorithm. Results, presented for a gray fluid and a wide range of dimensionless numbers; Reynolds (<i>Re</i>=10-1000), Richardson (<i>Ri</i>=0-0.01), Boltzmann (<i>Bo</i>=0.1-100), radiation to conduction parameter (<i>Rc</i>=0.1-100), and optical thickness (τ = 0.1-10) show that the radiation significantly affects temperature distribution. Streamlines are also sensitive to radiative parameters (as optical thickness) but less than temperature.
KW  - combined
KW  -  radiation
KW  -  mixed convection
KW  -  open cavity
KW  -  optical thickness

DO  - 10.3970/fdmp.2011.007.071