Natural convection heat transfer in horizontal and vertical closed narrow enclosures with heated rectangular finned base plate

Abstract Natural convection heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics in horizontal and vertical narrow enclosures with heated rectangular finned base plate have been experimentally investigated at a wide range of Rayleigh number (Ra) for different fin spacings and fin lengths. Quantitative comparisons of finned surface effectiveness (e) and heat transfer rate between horizontal and vertical enclosures have been reported. In comparison with enclosure of a bare base plate, insertion of heat conducting fins always enhances heat transfer rate. Optimization of fin-array geometry has been addressed. The results gave an optimum fin spacing at which Nusselt number (NuH) and finned surface effectiveness (e) are maximum. It has been found that: (1) increasing fin length increases NuH and e; (2) increasing Ra increasesNuH for any fin-array geometries and (3) for any fin-array geometry and at Ra > 10,000, increasing Ra decreases e while for fin-array geometries of large fin spacing and at Ra

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