Patrick H. Oosthuizen^*, Jane T. Paul

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.1, No.1, pp. 1-8, 2010, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v1.1.3006

Abstract Natural convective heat transfer from narrow vertical plates which have a uniform surface heat flux has studied. With a narrow plate the heat transfer rate is dependent on the flow near the vertical edges of the plate. The magnitude of the edge effects will depend on the conditions existing near the edges of the plate. Three situations have here been considered these being a heated plate imbedded in a large plane adiabatic surface, the surfaces of the heated plane and the adiabatic surface being in the same plane, a heated plate with plane adiabatic surfaces above and below the heated… More >

H.E. Dillon, A.F. Emery^†, A.M. Mescher, O. Sprenger, S.R. Edwards

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.2, No.2, pp. 1-14, 2011, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v2.2.3002

Abstract The stability of free convection in an annulus is governed by the boundary conditions on the inner and outer walls of the annulus and the upper and lower boundaries. This paper explores the effect of free convection on the inner surface of the annulus, where the boundary conditions for the outer wall and the upper and lower boundaries are controlled. The temperature is measured in the center of the air cavity and just below the surface of the inner annular boundary. Experimental results are shown for a radius ratio of 0.40, aspect ratio of 20.7. These more recent experimental results… More >

Patrick H. Oosthuizen^*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 1-8, 2011, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v2.1.3004

Abstract The convective heat transfer to a window below which is mounted a natural convective heater has been numerically studied. The flow has been assumed to be three-dimensional and steady and to involve regions of laminar and turbulent flow. Fluid properties have been assumed constant except for the density change with temperature which leads to the buoyancy forces. The solution has been obtained using a commercial cfd code. Results have been obtained for a Prandtl number of 0.7. The effects of changes in the flow variables on the window Nusselt number and on the flow and temperature distributions have been examined. More >

D. Srinivasacharya^∗, G. Swamy Reddy

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.3, No.4, pp. 1-9, 2012, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v3.4.3008

Abstract The natural convection heat and mass transfer along a vertical plate embedded in non-Newtonian Power-law fluid saturated porous medium in the presence of first order chemical reaction and radiation is studied. The governing partial differential equations are transformed into ordinary differential equations using similarity transformations. The resulting equations are solved numerically using Shooting method. The effect of radiation parameters and chemical reaction parameter and power law index on non-dimensional velocity, temperature and concentration fields are discussed. The variation of different parameters on heat and mass transfer rates is presented in tabular form. More >

Manoj Kr. Triveni^* , Dipak Sen, RajSekhar Panua

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.5, pp. 1-8, 2014, DOI:10.5098/hmt.5.12

Abstract A numerical investigation has been performed for heat transfer analysis in a right-angled triangular enclosure filled with water. The side wall of the enclosure is maintained at high temperature compare to the base wall while hypotenuse is kept thermally insulated. Two - dimensional steady-state continuity, momentum and energy equations along with the boussinesq approximation are solved by finite volume method using commercial available software, FLUENT 6.3. The computational results are shown in terms of isotherms, streamlines and velocity contour for Rayleigh number (10⁵ ≤ Ra ≤ 10⁷ ). The heat transfer is presented in terms of local and average Nusselt… More >

M. Bouraoui^a, M. S. Rouabah^a, A. Abidi-Saad^b,c,d,*, A. Korichi^e, C. Popa^b , G. Polidori^b

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.8, pp. 1-6, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.8.18

Abstract Study concerning a double skin flow with secondary ventilation was conducted numerically, in order to understand the basic mechanisms of the free convection in an open channel asymmetrically heated with uniform heat flux density (510 W/m² ). The vertical channel corresponds to a double skin façade, which was immersed in a tank filled with water. The tank corresponds to the environment which allows us to overcome pressure conditions at the inlet and the outlet of the channel. The use of water allows neglecting radiation effect. The mass conservation equations of momentum and energy are solved using the finite volume method… More >

Nithish Reddy^* , K. Murugesan

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.8, pp. 1-11, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.8.7

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… More >

K. Madhavi^a,b,*, V. Ramachandra Prasad^a , N. Nagendra^a , G.S.S. Raju^b

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.9, pp. 1-12, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.9.29

Abstract In this article, the combined theoretical and computational study of the magneto hydrodynamic heat transfer in an electro-conductive polymer on the external surface of a vertical truncated cone under radial magnetic field is presented. Thermal and velocity (hydrodynamic) slip are considered at the vertical truncated cone surface via modified boundary conditions. The Williamson viscoelastic model is employed which is representative of certain industrial polymers. The governing partial differential equations (PDEs) are transformed into highly nonlinear, coupled, multi-degree non-similar partial differential equations consisting of the momentum and energy equations via appropriate non-similarity transformations. These transformed conservation equations are solved subject to… More >

Shantanu Dutta^* , Arup Kumar Biswas

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.10, pp. 1-12, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.10.8

Abstract Industrial processes optimization for higher energy efficiency may be effectively carried out based on the thermodynamic approach of entropy generation minimization (EGM). This approach provides the key insights on how the available energy (exergy) is being destroyed during the process and the ways to minimize its destruction. In this study, EGM approach is implemented for the analysis of optimal thermal mixing and temperature uniformity due to natural convection in quadrantal cavity filled with porous medium for the material processing applications or for cooling of electrical equipments. Effect of the permeability of the porous medium and the role of non-uniform heating… More >

Mohammed A. Tashkandi^a , Abdelkarim Aydi^b,*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.11, pp. 1-6, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.11.27

Abstract In this work, a computational study of convective heat transfer in a hybrid CNT-Al2O3/water nanofluid cavity filled. The main considered parameters are the Rayleigh number and nanoparticles volume fraction. Results are presented in terms of flow structure, temperature field, and average Nusselt number. Since CNT and Al₂O₃ have different shapes to models are used to evaluate the effective thermal conductivity. It was found that both increasing Rayleigh number and nanoparticles volume fraction increase the heat transfer intensify the flow and affect the temperature field. Adding nanoparticles enhances the heat transfer due to the enhancement of the effective thermal conductivity. The… More >