Effect of the Soil Inclination on Natural Convection in Half-Elliptical Greenhouses

Abstract

A numerical study of the natural convection of laminar heat transfers in the stationary state in a half-elliptic inclined cavity, which represents a continuation of the work done, we studied the influence of the tilt of the cavity by varying the angle — entered 0 degrees, which corresponds to the horizontal cavity, up to 15 degrees. For each value of δ we varied the Rayleigh number from 2.13 103 to 106. The system of equations governing the problem solved numerically by the fluent calculation code based on the finite volume method. Based on the Boussinesq approximation. Both bottom and upper walls maintained at a constant temperature. The interest of this study is to see the influence of the tilt of the half-elliptic cavity on the structure of the flow and the distribution of temperature. These results can exploited in semi-elliptic agricultural greenhouses that rest on sloping soils. We chose a Prandtl number 0.71 that corresponds to the air. Keywords: Heat transfer; half-elliptical; Natural convection; Laminar flow; Multicellular; CFD simulation

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