Buoyant cavity

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Mesh
• Results
  • Velocity distributions
  • Temperature distributions

Overview

• Solver: buoyantSimpleFoam
• Investigation into natural convection in a heat cavity
• Experimental case described by Betts and Bokhari [5]
• $FOAM_TUTORIALS/heatTransfer/buoyantSimpleFoam/buoyantCavity

The case is described in the following figure

Case description

A temperature difference of 19.6K is maintained between the hot and cold; the remaining patches are treated as adiabatic.

Mesh

• 3D structured mesh created using blockMesh

Results

Results are presented for a selection of y/H locations

Velocity distributions

Temperature distributions

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