@Article{hmt.8.7,
AUTHOR = {Nithish Reddy
, K. Murugesan},
TITLE = {FINITE ELEMENT STUDY OF DDNC IN BOTTOM HEATED  ENCLOSURES WITH MASS DIFFUSIVE SIDE WALLS},
JOURNAL = {Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer},
VOLUME = {8},
YEAR = {2017},
NUMBER = {1},
PAGES = {1--11},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/fhmt/v8n1/53526},
ISSN = {2151-8629},
ABSTRACT = {In this paper DDNC phenomenon in a bottom heated enclosure exposed to mass diffusion from its side walls is investigated numerically. The interplay 
between thermal and solutal buoyancy forces on fluid circulation and heat transfer rates is studied in three different enclosures of aspect ratios 0.5, 1.0 
and 2.0. Finite element base numerical code has used to solve the governing equations, here velocity and vorticity are taken as primary variables for 
flow field. Numerical results are well validated with that of the literature. The relative strength of solutal to thermal buoyancy forces is defined by 
buoyancy ratio parameter ‘N’, numerical investigations were carried out for different values of N in the range of 0 to 10 and three different Rayleigh 
numbers(Ra=1.0×10<sup>3</sup>,1.0×10<sup>4</sup>,1.0×10<sup>5</sup>). From results it is observed that solutal buoyancy forces broken down the larger fluid cells and promoted local 
circulations of stronger strength. Increase in contribution of solutal buoyancy force has resulted in a maximum of 12.6%, 14.5% and 51% increase in 
average Nusselt number for shallow, square and deep enclosures respectively when heat transfer is primarily by convection while the effect of buoyancy 
ratio is not felt much on heat transfer at diffusion dominant conditions i.e at Ra=1.0×10<sup>3</sup>.},
DOI = {10.5098/hmt.8.7}
}