Papers Published

1. Bejan, A. and Tien, C. L., LAMINAR NATURAL CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER IN A HORIZONTAL CAVITY WITH DIFFERENT END TEMPERATURES., Journal of Heat Transfer, Transactions ASME, vol. 100 no. 4 (1978), pp. 641 - 647 .
   (last updated on 2007/04/08)

   Abstract:
   The heat transfer by free convection in a horizontal cavity with adiabatic horizontal walls and differentially heated end walls is studied analytically. The paper develops three models for explaining and predicting the heat transfer mechanism in a cavity with the height/length aspect ratio considerably smaller than one. The three models are: the regime of vanishing Rayleigh numbers; the intermediate regime; and the boundary layer regime. The transition from one model to the next occurs as the Rayleigh number increases. The Nusselt number prediction based on the three-regime theory agrees very well with available numerical and experimental heat transfer data.

   Keywords:
   FLOW OF FLUIDS;MATHEMATICAL MODELS;