Authors: Armando PiñaOrtiz Jesús F HinojosaPalafox Jesús B PérezValenzuela
Publish Date: 2013/03/19
Volume: 49, Issue: 7, Pages: 933-945
Abstract
In this work the numerical and experimental results of heat transfer in a vertical tall closed cavity are presented The cavity has an aspect ratio of 20 one of the vertical walls receive a constant and uniform heat flux while the opposite wall is kept at a constant temperature The remaining walls are assumed adiabatic The cavity is full of air The computational fluid dynamics software Fluent 63 was used for the simulation and an experimental prototype was built to obtain the heat transfer coefficients The air temperature and the fluid velocity values are higher when emissivity ε is 003 almost pure natural convection The experimental total heat transfer coefficient increases between 1199 and 1599 when the emissivity of the walls changes from 003 to 095
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