Experimental Study of Natural Convection Due to Combined Buoyancy in a Rectangular Enclosure

직각 밀폐용기내의 복합부력에 의한 자연대류에 관한 실험적 연구

An experimental investigation was conducted to study natural convection due to temperature and concentration differences between the two opposite end walls of a rectangular enclosure of aspect ratio 0.2. Flow motion in the enclosure appears as a uni-cell flow pattern for the relatively lower concentration and higher temperature differences and vice versa, while it appears as a multicell flow pattern for the comparable temperature and concentration differences. In the multi-cell flow regime, when the cellular flow motiion is very slow, vertical temperature differences within the cells are negligible while the vertical concentration differences are large. In addition, both the temperature and concentration differences are negligible across the interface between the slowly moving cells. For the fast moving cellular flow motion, on thel contrary, vertical temperature differences within the cells are large while the vertical concentration differences are negligible. In this case, temperature differences are negligible and the concentration differences are large across the interface between the fase moving cells.

본 연구에서는 종횡비가 0.2인 직각 밀폐용기내에서 소금물을 시험유체로 하여 양단의 온도 및 농도차가 수평방향으로 가해지는 경우(CASE 1,2) 밀폐용기내 에서의 유동현상과 열전달 특성을 온도 및 농도분포, 흐름의 가시화를 통해 실험적 으로 관찰, 조사하였다