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Abstract

Heat transfer in steady free convection from differentially heated cylinders enclosed in a rectangular duct filled with Bingham plastic fluids has been solved numerically for the ranges of the dimensionless groups as, Rayleigh number, 10 2 ≤ Ra ≤ 10 6; Prandtl number, 10 ≤ Pr ≤ 100 and, Bingham number, 0 ≤ Bn ≤ 50 for aspect ratios AR = 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 and 2. The streamlines, isotherm contours, yield surfaces, local and average Nusselt numbers were analysed and discussed. It is found that as the aspect ratio of the enclosure increases from 0.5 to 0.9, the average Nusselt number on the surface of the hot cylinder increases as a larger amount of fluid takes part in convection. Moreover, at sufficiently large Bingham numbers, yield stress forces dominate over buoyancy causing the flow to cease and thus the Nusselt number approaches its conduction limit. Finally, the Nusselt number approaches its conduction limit once the maximum Bingham number is reached.
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Authors and Affiliations

Ashok Kumar Baranwal
1
Anoop Kumar Gupta
2
Anurag Kumar Tiwari
3
Roderick Melnik
4 5

  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, BIT Sindri, Dhanbad 828123, India
  2. Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, IIT Patna 801106, India
  3. Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT Jalandhar 144011, India
  4. Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  5. BCAM Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bizkaia, Spain

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