Local mass transfer measurements in an inclined enclosure at high Rayleigh number

Richard J Goldstein, H. D. Chiang, Vinod Srinivasan, A. S. Fleischer

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Abstract

An electrochemical technique is used to study local mass transfer coefficients on surfaces of inclined enclosures over the range 1.1×10 4 < Ra H < 1.4×1010 for a nominal Schmidt number of 2280. Scaling with gcosθ instead of g in the Rayleigh number correlates the data well at low angles of inclination; however, as either the aspect ratio or the angle of inclination increase, the longitudinal density stratification causes the data to deviate from a power law scaling.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)991-998
Number of pages8
JournalHeat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung
Volume41
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2005

Keywords

  • Density stratification
  • Enclosure
  • Inclined enclosure
  • Natural convection

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