The present investigation deals with the numerical computation of laminar natural convection in a gamma of right-angled triangular cavities filled with air. The vertical walls are heated and the inclined walls are cooled while the upper connecting walls are insulated from the ambient air. The defining apex angle is located at the lower vertex formed between the vertical and inclined walls. This unique kind of cavity may find application in the miniaturization of electronic packaging severely constrained by space and/or weight. The finite volume method is used to perform the computational analysis encompassing a collection of apex angles compressed in the interval that extends from 5° to 63°. The height-based Rayleigh number, being unaffected by the apex angle , ranges from a low to a high . Numerical results are reported for the velocity field, the temperature field and the mean convective coefficient along the heated vertical wall. Overall, the matching between the numerically predicted temperatures and the experimental measurements of air at different elevations inside a slim cavity is of ordinary quality. For purposes of engineering design, a correlation equation was constructed and also a figure-of-merit ratio between the and the cross sectional area of the cavity was proposed.
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Natural Convection Patterns in Right-Angled Triangular Cavities with Heated Vertical Sides and Cooled Hypotenuses
El Hassan Ridouane,
El Hassan Ridouane
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
The University of Vermont
, Burlington, VT 05405
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Antonio Campo,
Antonio Campo
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
e-mail: acampo@cem.uvm.edu
The University of Vermont
, Burlington, VT 05405
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Jane Y. Chang
Jane Y. Chang
Department of Applied Statistics and Operation Research,
Bowling Green State University
, Bowling Green, OH 43403
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El Hassan Ridouane
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
The University of Vermont
, Burlington, VT 05405
Antonio Campo
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
The University of Vermont
, Burlington, VT 05405e-mail: acampo@cem.uvm.edu
Jane Y. Chang
Department of Applied Statistics and Operation Research,
Bowling Green State University
, Bowling Green, OH 43403J. Heat Transfer. Oct 2005, 127(10): 1181-1186 (6 pages)
Published Online: May 3, 2005
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April 12, 2004
Revised:
May 3, 2005
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Ridouane, E. H., Campo, A., and Chang, J. Y. (May 3, 2005). "Natural Convection Patterns in Right-Angled Triangular Cavities with Heated Vertical Sides and Cooled Hypotenuses." ASME. J. Heat Transfer. October 2005; 127(10): 1181–1186. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2033903
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