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Natural convection in tilted cylindrical cavities embedded in rocks
F Sánchez1, F J Higuera, A Medina
1Grupo de Medios Porosos y Granulados, Programa de Matemáticas y Computación, IMP Mexico DF, 07730, Mexico.
Abstract:
This paper presents a theoretical investigation of the low Rayleigh number conjugate natural convection in a slender tilted cylindrical cavity which is embedded in a solid that is subject to a uniform vertical temperature gradient. Two cases have been analyzed; a fluid-filled cavity and a cavity filled with a fluid-saturated porous medium. The temperature of the solid and the velocity, temperature, and pressure in the cavity have been determined by analytically solving the coupled problems within and around the cavity. The effect of the ratio of the thermal conductivity of the material in the cavity to the thermal conductivity of the solid on the structure of the convection flow is discussed. The theoretical results for convection in the fluid-filled cavity are shown to be in good agreement with experimental PIV measurements.
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