Convective heat transfer through a large aperture has been studied theoretically and experimentally using reduced scale models for many years. This paper describes the effect of the width of a large opening on the convective heat flow in an enclosure for 5.6×108< Rayleigh number (Ra)<2.8×1010. In our case a full scale realistic calorimetric chamber (5.5m x 2.5m x 2.5m) was used in this study. This chamber contains two zones connected by a large aperture of height H. A hot and cold wall on each side of the aperture will create a temperature difference between the two zones. Empirical equations are expressed in terms of varying door aspect ratio ADS, i.e.: NuPr=(α+βWH)∗Grb, at various temperature differences between the two zones. It was clearly found that as the width decreases the convective flux increases substantially. The instability of the air flow due to the apparition of a small turbulence increased when the opening width gets larger. It was also noticed that the neutral axis (air velocity = 0) goes up when the width of the opening decreases resulting in an acceleration of the air flow above the neutral axis. The liability of these experimental results could be useful for the validation of simulation models.
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