Ph.D. Tezi Görüntüleme

      The studies concerning about the natural convection heat transfer in enclosures have begun about forty years ago. These studies are still in progress both in increasing quantity and in developing quality. Most of them are related with rectangular (or square) enclosures, and the lesser are related with triangular enclosures. In the present study, unsteady natural convection heat transfer problem under several boundary conditions for square, triangular and partially inclined side wall included enclosures is considered for the analysis. The construction of the enclosure is imagined to obtain by superimposing a right triangular enclosure on a square enclosure, and then removing the common horizontal wall of the enclosures. Effect of obstacle positioned in the enclosures is also analyzed. A boundary condition applied to wall of the enclosures, as a newly introduced boundary condition, is defined as a time dependent temperature variation for a twenty four hour period such that the maximum and the minimum of the period correspond to the noon and the midnight of a day. The bottom side of the enclosure is kept at midnight temperature value for the summertime boundary condition and at noon temperature value for the wintertime boundary condition.

       Results of the prescribed cases are presented in terms of stream function, isotherms and average Nusselt numbers. Because of the effect of the daytime temperature variation concern, time varying position of the maximum temperature within the enclosure is also presented. It is concluded that, heat loss to the daytime temperature boundary is low for summertime application. For the wintertime application, strong recirculation and resulting high temperature gradient occurs near the daytime temperature boundary. This occurrence leads a remarkable amount of heat loss to that boundary.

      Key Words: Natural Convection Heat Transfer, Daytime Temperature Variation,