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DTIC ADA1033897: Numerical Solution of Natural Convection in an Inclined Rectangular Cavity with Partitions.

A numerical investigation was conducted on two-dimensional natural convection within inclined rectangular enclosures partitioned into 45 degree triangular cells. The time dependent governing equations, vorticity, energy, and stream function, were solved by an ADI method and a Gauss-Seidel SOR technique. The numerical procedure was validated for rectangular enclosures, then modified for triangular cells. Heat transfer coefficients were determined for an inclined square enclosure with a diagonal partition for Grashof numbers less than 200,000 and inclination angles between 10 degrees and 90 degrees. These results show a diagonal partition reduces the heat transferred by natural convection across an inclined square enclosure by more than 50%. (Author)

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