Visualization of Heat Transport during Natural Convection in a Tilted Square Cavity: Effect of Isothermal and Nonisothermal Heating

Abstract

Bejan's heatlines approach has been introduced to visualize heat flow during natural convection within a tilted square cavity inclined at an angle of ϕ = 30°. The enclosure is bounded by hot wall AB (case 1: isothermal heating and case 2: nonisothermal heating), isothermally cooled walls DA and BC in the presence of adiabatic wall CD. The results are presented in terms of streamlines, isotherms, heatlines, and local and average Nusselt numbers. The nonisothermal heating case produces the greater heat transfer rate at the center of the wall AB compared to that of the isothermal heating case, whereas the average Nusselt number shows an overall lower heat transfer rate for the nonisothermal heating case.