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Natural Convection Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Enclosures with Varying Aspect Ratios (CFD)

Buoyancy driven natural convection in enclosures has wide range of engineering applications in heat transfer processes. The study of fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics in enclosures has significant importance towards thermal management and optimal design of the system. Limited studies are...

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Main Author: Sang, Wong Yean
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: IRC 2015
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TP Chemical technology
Online Access:http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15778/1/Dissertation_WONG%20YEAN%20SANG_16097.pdf
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spelling my-utp-utpedia.157782017-01-25T09:36:27Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15778/ Natural Convection Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Enclosures with Varying Aspect Ratios (CFD) Sang, Wong Yean TP Chemical technology Buoyancy driven natural convection in enclosures has wide range of engineering applications in heat transfer processes. The study of fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics in enclosures has significant importance towards thermal management and optimal design of the system. Limited studies are available on the numerical simulation of 3-Dimensional enclosures with varying aspect ratios (H/L). Heat transfer characteristics has been investigated in 3D enclosure with hot and cold surface by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulating at low (0.125 ≤ AR ≤ 50) and high (51 ≤ AR ≤ 150) aspect ratios. CFD simulations have been performed with different fluids (fluid 1, fluid 2 and fluid 3) at temperature range of 20K ≤ ΔT ≤ 100K and Prandtl number range of 0.01 ≤ Pr ≤ 4200. The predicted profiles for velocities and heat transfer coefficients are presented. Correlations for Nusselt number based on predicted findings have been developed to study heat transfer characteristics. IRC 2015 Final Year Project NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15778/1/Dissertation_WONG%20YEAN%20SANG_16097.pdf Sang, Wong Yean (2015) Natural Convection Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Enclosures with Varying Aspect Ratios (CFD). IRC, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. (Unpublished)
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Sang, Wong Yean
Natural Convection Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Enclosures with Varying Aspect Ratios (CFD)
description Buoyancy driven natural convection in enclosures has wide range of engineering applications in heat transfer processes. The study of fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics in enclosures has significant importance towards thermal management and optimal design of the system. Limited studies are available on the numerical simulation of 3-Dimensional enclosures with varying aspect ratios (H/L). Heat transfer characteristics has been investigated in 3D enclosure with hot and cold surface by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulating at low (0.125 ≤ AR ≤ 50) and high (51 ≤ AR ≤ 150) aspect ratios. CFD simulations have been performed with different fluids (fluid 1, fluid 2 and fluid 3) at temperature range of 20K ≤ ΔT ≤ 100K and Prandtl number range of 0.01 ≤ Pr ≤ 4200. The predicted profiles for velocities and heat transfer coefficients are presented. Correlations for Nusselt number based on predicted findings have been developed to study heat transfer characteristics.
format Final Year Project
author Sang, Wong Yean
author_facet Sang, Wong Yean
author_sort Sang, Wong Yean
title Natural Convection Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Enclosures with Varying Aspect Ratios (CFD)
title_short Natural Convection Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Enclosures with Varying Aspect Ratios (CFD)
title_full Natural Convection Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Enclosures with Varying Aspect Ratios (CFD)
title_fullStr Natural Convection Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Enclosures with Varying Aspect Ratios (CFD)
title_full_unstemmed Natural Convection Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Enclosures with Varying Aspect Ratios (CFD)
title_sort natural convection heat transfer and fluid flow in enclosures with varying aspect ratios (cfd)
publisher IRC
publishDate 2015
url http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15778/1/Dissertation_WONG%20YEAN%20SANG_16097.pdf
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