Buoyancy-driven fluid flow and heat transfer in a pair of interacting vertical parallel channels
Abstract
The current investigation is concerned with the numerical solution of a problem involving buoyancy-driven fluid flow and heat transfer in a system consisting of two vertical parallel channels. The two channels share a common wall across which heat is transferred from one channel to the other. The other bounding wall of each channel is a surface of constant temperature, with different temperatures being prescribed for the respective channels. Attention is given to governing equations and boundary conditions, solution methodology, presentation parameters, surface-integrated heat transfer and fluid energy transport, the distributions of the local wall heat flux, and the temperature distribution along the intermediate wall.
- Publication:
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Numerical Heat Transfer
- Pub Date:
- March 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982NumHT...5...39S
- Keywords:
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- Buoyancy;
- Channel Flow;
- Computational Fluid Dynamics;
- Heat Transfer;
- Parallel Flow;
- Wall Temperature;
- Convective Heat Transfer;
- Energy Transfer;
- Finite Difference Theory;
- Heat Flux;
- Heat Transfer Coefficients;
- Iterative Solution;
- Temperature Distribution;
- Vertical Orientation;
- Wall Flow;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer