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A time-accurate Finite Volume method is used to investigate the two-dimensional buoyant flow in a closed cabinet containing two vertical heating plates. These are parallel, and form a channel at the centre of the cabinet enclosure. The cases of isothermal plates, and of uniform heat generation within them, are both considered for two values, 1×105 and 1×107, of the leading non-dimensional parameter, the Grashof number. Air (Pr = 0.71) is considered as the working fluid. Transient and long term thermal and flow behaviours are investigated. Steady-state solutions are asymptotically found at the lower Gr-value. However, time-dependent long-term solutions are predicted at Gr = 1×107.
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Received on 20 May 1998
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Barozzi, G., Corticelli, M. & Nobile, E. Numerical simulation of time-dependent buoyant flows in an enclosed vertical channel. Heat and Mass Transfer 35, 89–99 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002310050302
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002310050302