Conjugate Heat Transfer and Natural Convection in the Cavity Wall using ADINA-CFD

Presentation by, Anil Kumar Patidar (12MST1040) M.Tech, Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, SMBS, VIT University Chennai Campus, Chennai 600127.

Under the Guidance of, Ramesh Kannan.M, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, SMBS VIT University Chennai Campus, Chennai 600127.

Introduction
The effect of wall heat conduction on natural convection heat transfer in cavities has gained attention of many researchers in recent years due to its wide application areas in engineering such as building heating and cooling, thick walled enclosures, cooling of electronic equipments, internal combustion engines and solar collectors. Moreover, researchers have performed several numerical and experimental studies on natural convection to investigate the effect of wall heat conduction on heat transfer.

Objective
To study the heat transfer in the Cavity wall, one of the Energy efficient construction procedure. This research focuses primarily on the study of natural convection in the cavity wall using numerical and simulation study using ADINA structure.

Scope
This focuses on various types of cavity walls. Brick-Brick cavity wall.

Brick-Concrete cavity wall.

 Concrete-Concrete cavity wall.

Hollow in-filled with insulation both side wall.

Methodology
Study of heat transfer in cavity wall

Development of Cavity wall model using ADINA-CFD

Defining the boundary conditions for analysis

Analysis of the developed model

Results

Model Overview

Model

Model of the Mesh

Particle Movement in Wall Cavity

Partical Movement in Wall Cavity over a period of time

RESULTS

Temperature Variance and Heat Flux

Literature Review
De Vahl Davis (1983) Computational method has been used to obtain accurate numerical solutions of the equations describing 2-D natural convection heat transfer in a square cavity. Kim et al (1984) Effect of wall conductance on natural convection in differently oriented square cavities was studied. Kaminski et al (1986) investigated the conjugate natural convection problem in enclosure with one thick vertical wall while the other three walls are taken to be of zero thickness Baytas et al. (2001) studied steady-state conjugate natural convection in a square cavity filled with a porous medium which consists of two horizontal conductive walls of finite thickness and two vertical walls at different uniform temperatures. Hakyemez et al. (2008) has investigated the effects of wall-located heat barrier on conjugate conduction and natural convection heat transfer and fluid flow in enclosures.

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