본 연구에서는 크기가 45˚인 부채형 공간내의 자연대류 열전달 특성을 고찰 하기 위하여 간격비, 경사각 그리고 Rayleigh 수를 변수로 하여 유한 차분법으로 수치 해석 하고, 대료적인 간격비 L/r$_{i}$=1.6에서 Ra=2.51*$10^{4}$ 및 Pr=0.71일때, Machzehnder 간섭계를 사용하여 실험 하였으며, 수치해석과 실험결과를 비교하였다.
Two-dimensional natural convection within a circular trapezoidal cavity with parallel cylindrical top and bottom walls at different temperatures and two adiabatic side walls has been solved by finite-difference methods. This study has been conducted to evaluate the effects of aspect ratio and inclination in the natural convection for various Rayleigh numbers. The minimum average Nusselt number occurs at the point of transition from a conductive heat transfer to a convective heat transfer. Numerical results are compared to experimental results with qualitatively good agreement.
