Viscoplastic fluids are special kind of non-Newtonian materials which deform or flow only when applied stresses are more than a critical value known as yield stress. In this work, a numerical investigation of natural convection in a square enclosure filled with viscoplastic fluids has been reported. The enclosure has been partially heated from the bottom wall by a heating source and symmetrically cooled from both the side walls. The rheology of the viscoplastic fluids has been modeled with Bingham fluid model. A scaling analysis has been presented to establish the gross dependence of heat transfer on different values of operating parameters of the problem. The effects of yield stress of the fluid on heat and fluid transport inside the enclosure have been investigated for different values of temperature difference, across the hot and cold surfaces and also for different fluids. The effects of different lengths of heated zone on the flow phenomena and heat transfer characteristics have been investigated for three different values of the heated zones. All the important results have been expressed in terms of Bingham number (Bn), Rayleigh number (Ra), and Prandtl number (Pr). It has been observed that with the increase in Bingham number, the buoyancy induced fluid circulation and convection effect decreases inside the enclosure. For each Rayleigh number, there correspond a critical Bingham number for which the heat transfer inside the enclosure takes place solely by conduction mode. This critical value increases with the increase in Rayleigh number. For fixed value of Bingham number, i.e., fixed value of yield stress, the effects of Rayleigh number and heated length on heat transfer have been observed similar to the case of natural convection in Newtonian fluid. It has been also observed that at high Bingham number the effect of increase in Rayleigh number on average Nusselt number is lesser compared to the effect of increasing Rayleigh number at low Bingham number. Using the present numerical results, a correlation of average Nusselt number as a function of other nondimensional numbers has been established.
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Journal of Heat Transfer
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Natural Convection of Viscoplastic Fluids in a Square Enclosure
Manabendra Pathak,
Manabendra Pathak
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Mohd. Kaleem Khan
Mohd. Kaleem Khan
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Patliputra Colony,
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
,Patliputra Colony,
Patna-13, Bihar
, India
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Manabendra Pathak
e-mail: mpathak@iitp.ac.in
Mohd. Kaleem Khan
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Patliputra Colony,
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
,Patliputra Colony,
Patna-13, Bihar
, India
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Contributed by the Heat Transfer Division of ASME for publication in the Journal of Heat Transfer. Manuscript received September 11, 2012; final manuscript received June 5, 2013; published online October 14, 2013. Assoc. Editor: William P. Klinzing.
J. Heat Transfer. Dec 2013, 135(12): 122501 (12 pages)
Published Online: October 14, 2013
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September 11, 2012
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Hassan, M. A., Pathak, M., and Khan, M. K. (October 14, 2013). "Natural Convection of Viscoplastic Fluids in a Square Enclosure." ASME. J. Heat Transfer. December 2013; 135(12): 122501. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4024896
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