A review of flow and heat transfer in cavities and their applications

The study of fluid flows in a cavity and their effect on thermal performance in heat transporting and entropy generation are found in many heating and cooling engineering applications such as energy storage geothermal reservoirs, boilers, solar collectors, underground water flow, lakes, nuclear reac...

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Published in:European physical journal plus 2021-04, Vol.136 (4), p.353, Article 353
Main Authors: Hussien, Ahmed A., Al-Kouz, Wael, Hassan, Mouhammad El, Janvekar, Ayub Ahmed, Chamkha, Ali J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied and Technical Physics
Atomic
Boundary conditions
Chemical reactors
Complex Systems
Condensed Matter Physics
Cooling
Energy storage
Engineering
Entropy
Fluid flow
Fluids
Heat exchangers
Heat transfer
Holes
Initial conditions
Investigations
Lakes
Magnetic fields
Magnetic properties
Mathematical and Computational Physics
Molecular
Nanoparticles
Nuclear reactors
Numerical analysis
Optical and Plasma Physics
Parameters
Physical properties
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Rayleigh number
Review
Solar collectors
Solar energy
Theoretical
Thermal properties
Thermodynamic properties
Underground storage
Velocity
Water flow
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Summary:The study of fluid flows in a cavity and their effect on thermal performance in heat transporting and entropy generation are found in many heating and cooling engineering applications such as energy storage geothermal reservoirs, boilers, solar collectors, underground water flow, lakes, nuclear reactors. This paper presents a comprehensive review of the recent numerical and experimental studies on both heat transfer and entropy generation and their applications in cavities. The effect of the fluid thermal properties, the cavity configuration, the boundary, and initial conditions, the magnetic field, the thermal source discretion, and other geometrical and physical parameters on heat transfer and entropy generation are discussed. This study also presents the effect of several important dimensionless parameters such as the Reynolds, Richardson, Grashof, Rayleigh, Darcy, Hartmann, and Prandtl numbers on both natural and combined convection heat transfer mechanisms in cavities.
ISSN:2190-5444
2190-5444
DOI:10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01320-3