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Title: Natural convection within a vertical finite-length channel in free space

Journal Article · · Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2514/3.547· OSTI ID:7164232
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  1. National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan, Province of China)

Natural convection within a vertical finite length channel in free space is studied in this article to remove assumptions that need to be made on velocity and temperature profiles at the channel entrance. For small channel aspect ratios and low Rayleigh numbers, significant deviations of the Nusselt number and temperature distributions exist due to the effects of vertical thermal diffusion and free space stratification in the channel. A new correlation was proposed on induced Reynolds number for vertical finite length channel. 8 refs.

OSTI ID:
7164232
Journal Information:
Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer; (United States), Vol. 8:2; ISSN 0887-8722
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English