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Chapter 2<br />

Literature Review<br />

In this chapter major research efforts that have been carried out so far in<br />

cases <strong>of</strong> <strong>natural</strong> or mixed <strong>convection</strong> will be reviewed. In Section 2.1, experi-<br />

mental researches and their findings regarding the physics <strong>of</strong> <strong>natural</strong> or mixed<br />

<strong>convection</strong> are discussed. In Section 2.2, the major studies in the numerical<br />

modelling <strong>of</strong> buoyancy-induced <strong>flows</strong> are reviewed and the intended contri-<br />

bution <strong>of</strong> this work to the progress <strong>of</strong> numerical simulation <strong>of</strong> <strong>natural</strong> convec-<br />

tion is explained.<br />

2.1 Experimental Studies<br />

Flat Plates<br />

Warner and Arpaci[2] carried out an experimental study <strong>of</strong> <strong>turbulent</strong> nat-<br />

ural <strong>convection</strong> in air over a vertical heated flat plate. <strong>The</strong>ir results showed<br />

good agreement with the analytical correlation <strong>of</strong> Bayley[11] (Nu = 0.1Ra 1<br />

3 )<br />

for Rayleigh numbers up to 10 12 . Those measurements and correlations are<br />

compared in the Figure 2.1. <strong>The</strong> temperature measurements showed that the<br />

thermal boundary layer gets thicker as x increases (x is the distance from bot-<br />

tom <strong>of</strong> the vertical heated wall). <strong>The</strong> results also showed that temperature<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>iles retain the same basic shape over the length <strong>of</strong> the vertical plate.<br />

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