TY - JOUR
TI - Effects of an adiabatic fin on the mixed convection heat transfer in a square cavity with two ventilation ports
AU - Selimefendigil Fatih
AU - Öztop Hakan F
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2014
VL - 18
IS - 2
SP - 377
EP - 389
PT - Article
AB - In this study, a square cavity with two ventilation ports in the presence of  an adi-abatic fin of different lengths placed on the walls of the cavity is  numerically analyzed for the mixed convection case for a range of  Richardson numbers (Ri=0.1,1, 10, 100) and at Reynolds number of 300. The  effect of the fin height, placement of the fin on each of the four walls of the  cavity and Richardson number on the heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics  is numerically analyzed. The results are presented in terms of streamlines,  isotherm plots and averaged Nusselt number plots. It is observed that for  the convection dominated case, fin length and its position on the one of the  four walls of the cavity do not alter the thermal performance whereas when  the buoyancy effects become important thermal performance increases for high  fin length.