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Thermal and fluid dynamic behaviors in symmetrical heated channel‐chimney systems

Thermal and fluid dynamic behaviors in symmetrical heated channel‐chimney systems Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the thermal and fluid dynamic behaviors of natural convection in a vertical channel‐chimney system heated symmetrically at uniform heat flux in order to detect the different fluid motion structures inside the chimney, such as the cold inflow from the outlet section of the chimney and the reattachment due to the hot jet from the channel, for different extension and expansion ratios of the adiabatic extensions. Design/methodology/approach – The model is constituted by two‐dimensional steady‐state fully elliptic conservation equations which are solved numerically in a composite three‐part computational domain by means of the finite‐volume method. Findings – Stream function and temperature fields in the system are presented in order to detect the different fluid motion structures inside the chimney, for different extension and expansion ratios of the adiabatic extensions. The analysis allows to evaluate the effect of the channel aspect ratio on the thermal and fluid dynamic behaviors on a channel‐chimney system and thermal and geometrical conditions corresponding to a complete downflow. Guidelines to estimate critical conditions related to the beginning of flow separation and complete downflow are given in terms of order of magnitude of Rayleigh and Froude numbers. Research limitations/implications – The hypotheses on which the present analysis is based are: two‐dimensional, laminar and steady‐state flow, constant thermophysical properties with the Boussinesq approximation. The investigation is carried out in the following ranges: from 100 to 100,000 for the Rayleigh number, from 5.0 to 20 for the aspect ratio, from 1.0 to 4.0 for the expansion ratio and from 1.5 to 4 for the extension ratio. Practical implications – Thermal design of heating systems in different technical fields, such as in electronic cooling and in building ventilation and houses solar components, evaluation of heat convective coefficients and guidelines to estimate critical conditions related to the beginning of flow separation and complete downflow. Originality/value – The paper is useful to thermal designers because of its evaluation of the thermal and velocity fields, correlation for the Nusselt number and guidelines criteria in terms of Rayleigh and Froude numbers to evaluate conditions of flow separation and complete downflow in natural convection in air for vertical channels‐chimney systems. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow Emerald Publishing

Thermal and fluid dynamic behaviors in symmetrical heated channel‐chimney systems

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Emerald Publishing
Copyright
Copyright © 2010 Emerald Group Publishing Limited. All rights reserved.
ISSN
0961-5539
DOI
10.1108/09615531011065584
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Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the thermal and fluid dynamic behaviors of natural convection in a vertical channel‐chimney system heated symmetrically at uniform heat flux in order to detect the different fluid motion structures inside the chimney, such as the cold inflow from the outlet section of the chimney and the reattachment due to the hot jet from the channel, for different extension and expansion ratios of the adiabatic extensions. Design/methodology/approach – The model is constituted by two‐dimensional steady‐state fully elliptic conservation equations which are solved numerically in a composite three‐part computational domain by means of the finite‐volume method. Findings – Stream function and temperature fields in the system are presented in order to detect the different fluid motion structures inside the chimney, for different extension and expansion ratios of the adiabatic extensions. The analysis allows to evaluate the effect of the channel aspect ratio on the thermal and fluid dynamic behaviors on a channel‐chimney system and thermal and geometrical conditions corresponding to a complete downflow. Guidelines to estimate critical conditions related to the beginning of flow separation and complete downflow are given in terms of order of magnitude of Rayleigh and Froude numbers. Research limitations/implications – The hypotheses on which the present analysis is based are: two‐dimensional, laminar and steady‐state flow, constant thermophysical properties with the Boussinesq approximation. The investigation is carried out in the following ranges: from 100 to 100,000 for the Rayleigh number, from 5.0 to 20 for the aspect ratio, from 1.0 to 4.0 for the expansion ratio and from 1.5 to 4 for the extension ratio. Practical implications – Thermal design of heating systems in different technical fields, such as in electronic cooling and in building ventilation and houses solar components, evaluation of heat convective coefficients and guidelines to estimate critical conditions related to the beginning of flow separation and complete downflow. Originality/value – The paper is useful to thermal designers because of its evaluation of the thermal and velocity fields, correlation for the Nusselt number and guidelines criteria in terms of Rayleigh and Froude numbers to evaluate conditions of flow separation and complete downflow in natural convection in air for vertical channels‐chimney systems.

Journal

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid FlowEmerald Publishing

Published: Sep 21, 2010

Keywords: Convection; Fluid dynamics; Flow; Thermodynamics

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