Analysis of Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer in a Differentially Heated 2‐D Square Enclosure

Abstract

Radiative heat transfer with and without conduction in a differentially heated 2-D square enclosure is analyzed. The enclosure with diffuse gray boundaries contains radiating and/or conducting gray homogeneous medium. Radiatively, the medium is absorbing, emitting and scattering. On the south boundary, four types of discrete heated regions, viz., the full boundary, the left one-third, left two third and middle one third, are considered. In the absence of conduction, distributions of heat flux along the south boundary are studied for the effect of extinction coefficient. In the presence of conduction, distributions of radiation, conduction and total heat fluxes along the south boundary are analyzed for the effects of extinction coefficient, scattering albedo, conduction-radiation parameter, and south boundary emissivity. Effects of these parameters on centerline temperature distribution are also studied. To assess the performance of three commonly used radiative transfer methods, in all cases, the radiative transfer equation is solved using the discrete ordinate method (DOM), the conventional discrete ordinate method (CDOM) and the finite volume method (FVM). In the combined mode problem, with volumetric radiative information known from one of the three methods, viz., DOM, CDOM, and FVM, the energy equation is solved using the finite difference method (FDM). In all cases, the results from FDM-DOM, FDM-CDOM, and FDM-FVM are in good agreement. Computationally, all three sets of methods are equally efficient. C⃝ 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heat Trans Asian Res, 0(0): 1-25, 2016; Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/htj).

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