Computational fluid dynamics and experimental study of turbulent natural convection with surface thermal radiation in a cubic enclosure

J. M. A. Navarro, J. F. Hinojosa and I. Hernández-López
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J. M. A. Navarro: Department of Chemical Engineering and Metallurgy, Universidad de Sonora, Blvd. Encinas y Rosales S/N. Col. Centro., Hermosillo, Sonora, CP. 83000, México
J. F. Hinojosa: Department of Chemical Engineering and Metallurgy, Universidad de Sonora, Blvd. Encinas y Rosales S/N. Col. Centro., Hermosillo, Sonora, CP. 83000, México
I. Hernández-López: Department of Chemical Engineering and Metallurgy, Universidad de Sonora, Blvd. Encinas y Rosales S/N. Col. Centro., Hermosillo, Sonora, CP. 83000, México

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2020, vol. 31, issue 05, 1-26

Abstract: This paper reports a computational fluid dynamics and experimental study to analyze the effect of surface thermal radiation on the turbulent natural convection in a closed cubic cavity. Experimental and numerical results are compared for low and high wall emissivities. Experimental temperature profiles were obtained at six different depths and heights consisting of 14 thermocouples each. Several turbulence models were evaluated against experimental data. It was found that renormalized k-ϵt and standard k-ω turbulence models present the best agreement with the experimental data for emissivities of walls of 0.98 and 0.03, respectively. Thus, the numerical results of temperature fields and flow patterns were obtained with these models. From the results, it was found that the effect of thermal radiation on experimental heat transfer coefficients is significantly, increased between 48.7% (Ra=4.06×1011) and 50.16% (Ra=1.85×1011), when the emissivity of the walls increases from 0.03 to 0.98. Therefore, the radiative exchange should not be neglected in heat transfer calculations in cubic enclosures, even if the temperature difference between heated wall and cold wall is relatively small (between 15 and 30K).

Keywords: Cavity; thermal radiation; natural convection; turbulence models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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