Natural Convection in a Square Enclosure with Two Horizontal Cylinders |
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| Authors: | Hyun Sik Yoon Jae Hwan Jung Yong Gap Park |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Global Core Research Center for Ships and Offshore Plants , Pusan National University , Busan , Republic of Korea lesmodel@pusan.ac.kr;3. Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering , Pusan National University , Busan , Republic of Korea;4. Department of Mechanical Engineering , Pusan National University , Busan , Republic of Korea |
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| Abstract: | This study investigates natural convection in a cooled square enclosure with two inner heated circular cylinders with the same diameter. The centers of two equidiameter cylinders are placed at those of the lower and upper half of the enclosure, respectively. The immersed boundary method (IBM) to model the inner circular cylinders based on the finite volume method is used to study a two-dimensional natural convection for different Rayleigh numbers varying in the range of 103 ≤ Ra ≤ 105. The effect of the radius of inner circular cylinders in an enclosure on heat transfer and fluid flow at different Rayleigh numbers has been examined. As the Rayleigh number increases, the horizontal symmetry is broken and the asymmetry occurred from the smaller radius. As the radius decreases, the dependence of the convection on the Rayleigh number is considerable. The dependence of the Nusselt number on the radius and the Rayleigh number is presented. |
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