Conductive-convective heat transfer in an inclined enclosure with vertical partition

Abstract

Conductive-convective heat transfer in a square enclosure are studied numerically in the present article. The hot and cold walls are making an angle with horizontal direction. The Galerkin weighted residual finite element method has been used to solve the governing partial differential equations. In numerical simulations, the partition thickness, the orientation angle and the Rayleigh number are considered. It is found that the flow circulation decreases with decreasing the orientation angle and the maximum heat transfer rate is obtained near ϕ = 60 • for the considered partition thickness.