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    Citation - WoS: 12
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    Using of Bejan's Heatline Technique for Analysis of Natural Convection in a Divided Cavity With Differentially Changing Conductive Partition
    (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2013) Koca, Ahmet; Öztop, Hakan Fehmi; Varol, Yasin; Mobedi, Moghtada
    The issue of laminar natural convection and conduction in enclosures divided by a partition with different thicknesses is investigated numerically. The partition is accepted as conductive at different thermal conductivity ratio. The cavity is filled with air, and it is heated differentially from vertical walls while horizontal walls are adiabatic. The problem is solved for different values of Rayleigh number (103 ≤ Ra ≤ 106), thickness ratio of the partition, and thermal conductivity ratio (0.1 ≤ k ≤ 10.0). It is found that both heat transfer and flow strength strongly depend on the thermal conductivity ratio of the solid material of partition and Rayleigh numbers.
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    Citation - WoS: 91
    Citation - Scopus: 108
    A Heatline Analysis of Natural Convection in a Square Inclined Enclosure Filled With a Cuo Nanofluid Under Non-Uniform Wall Heating Condition
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2012) Öztop, Hakan Fehmi; Mobedi, Moghtada; Abu-Nada, Eiyad; Pop, Ioan
    Heatline visualization technique is used to understand heat transport path in an inclined non-uniformly heated enclosure filled with water based CuO nanofluid. The cavity has square cross-section and it is non-uniformly heated from a wall and cooled from opposite wall while other walls are adiabatic. The governing equations which are continuity, momentum and energy equations are solved using finite volume method. The dimensionless heatfunction for nanofluid heat flow is defined and solved to determine heatline patterns. Calculations were performed for Rayleigh numbers of 10 3, 10 4 and 10 5, inclination angle of 0°, 30°, 60°and 90°, and nanoparticle fraction of 0, 0.02, 0.04, 0.06, 0.08 and 0.1. It is observed that heat transfer in the cavity increases by adding nanoparticles. The rate of increase is greater for the enclosures with low Rayleigh number. Visualization of heatline is successfully applied to nanoparticle convective flows. Based on the heatline patterns, three heat transfer regions are observed and discussed in details. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Citation - WoS: 36
    Citation - Scopus: 37
    Visualization of Heat Flow Using Bejan's Heatline Due To Natural Convection of Water Near 4 °c in Thick Walled Porous Cavity
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2010) Varol, Yasin; Öztop, Hakan Fehmi; Mobedi, Moghtada; Pop, Ioan
    A numerical study on natural convection heat transfer of cold water near 4 °C in a thick bottom walled cavity filled with a porous medium has been performed. It is assumed that the cavity is isothermally heated from the outside of the thick bottom wall and cooled from ceiling. The finite-difference method has been used to solve the governing partial differential equations of heat and fluid flow. Effects of thermal conductivity ratio, Rayleigh number and bottom wall thickness on heat transfer from the bottom to the ceiling have been studied. The heatline visualization technique has been used to demonstrate the path of heat transport through the enclosure. Moreover, streamlines and isotherms have been used to present fluid flow and temperature distributions. The obtained results show that multiple circulation cells are formed in the cavity and the local Nusselt numbers at the bottom wall and solid-fluid interface are highly affected by formed cells. The increase of Rayleigh number and thermal conductivity ratio increases heat transfer through the cavity. However, the increase of thickness of the bottom wall reduces the mean Nusselt number. Almost one-dimensional conduction heat transfer is observed in the solid bottom wall of the cavity. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Citation - WoS: 19
    Citation - Scopus: 18
    Heat Transfer Reduction Due To a Ceiling-Mounted Barrier in an Enclosure With Natural Convection
    (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2011) Gediz İliş, Gamze; Mobedi, Moghtada; Öztop, Hakan Fehmi
    Effects of a ceiling-mounted barrier on natural convection heat transfer in a square cavity with differentially heated wall are numerically investigated. A limit case, in which the partition has small thickness and low thermal conductivity, is studied. The study is performed for nine different locations of barrier on the ceiling, two different lengths of barrier as 15 and 50% of the side wall, and Rayleigh numbers from 103 to 106. The vorticity and streamfunction approach is used to obtain velocity distribution, and the energy equation is solved to determine temperature field in the cavity. The variations of the local Nusselt number on the hot and cold walls and the change of mean Nusselt number with the location of barrier in the cavities with different Rayleigh numbers are presented. The obtained results show that a wall-mounted barrier can be used to reduce heat transfer rate through the cavity; however, its effectiveness depends on length and location of barrier and Rayleigh number.
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    Citation - WoS: 27
    Citation - Scopus: 28
    Effects of Wall-Located Heat Barrier on Conjugate Conduction/Natural- Convection Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Enclosures
    (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2008) Hakyemez, Erinç; Mobedi, Moghtada; Öztop, Hakan Fehmi
    The effects of a heat barrier, located in the ceiling wall of an enclosure, on conjugate conduction/natural convection are investigated numerically. The vertical walls of the enclosure are differentially heated and the horizontal walls are adiabatic. Heatline technique is used to visualize heat transport. The variations of average Nusselt number, dimensionless heat transfer rate through the ceiling wall, and dimensionless overall heat transfer rate are studied. Calculations are performed for different Rayleigh numbers (10 3≤ Ra ≤ 10 6), thermal conductivity ratios (1 ≤ K ≤ 100), dimensionless locations of the heat barrier (0 < X h < 1),and two dimensionless ceiling wall thicknesses (D = 0.05 and D = 0.20). For high thermal conductivity ratio (K = 100), the heat barrier considerably reduces the dimensionless overall heat transfer rate. The effect of the heat barrier on dimensionless heat transfer rate through the enclosure increases as the Rayleigh number decreases. For low Rayleigh number (i.e., Ra = 10 3), a location exists in the ceiling wall for which the dimensionless overall heat transfer rate is minimum.
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    Citation - WoS: 81
    Citation - Scopus: 89
    Visualization of Natural Convection Heat Transport Using Heatline Method in Porous Non-Isothermally Heated Triangular Cavity
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2008) Varol, Yasin; Öztop, Hakan Fehmi; Mobedi, Moghtada; Pop, Ioan
    Natural convection heat transfer in a porous media filled and non-isothermally heated from the bottom wall of triangular enclosure is analyzed using finite difference technique. Darcy law was used to write equations of porous media. Dimensionless heatfunction was used to visualize the heat transport due to buoyancy forces. Three different boundary conditions were applied for the vertical and inclined boundaries of triangular enclosures as Case I; both vertical and inclined walls were isothermal, Case II; vertical wall was adiabatic and inclined one was isothermal, Case III; vertical wall is isothermal and inclined one is adiabatic. A cosine function was utilized to get non-isothermal wall condition. The study was performed for different aspect ratios (0.25 ≤ AR ≤ 1.0) and Darcy-modified Rayleigh numbers (100 ≤ Ra ≤ 1000). It was observed that heat transfer enhancement was formed when vertical and inclined walls were isothermal while bottom wall was at non-uniform temperature. Heat transfer from bottom wall did not vary when the value of aspect ratio was higher than 0.50. In addition, heatline visualization technique was a useful technique for non-isothermally heated and porous media filled triangular enclosures. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Citation - WoS: 25
    Citation - Scopus: 26
    Visualization of Heat Transport Using Dimensionless Heatfunction for Natural Convection and Conduction in an Enclosure With Thick Solid Ceiling
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2008) Mobedi, Moghtada; Öztop, Hakan Fehmi
    A conjugate conduction-(natural)convection problem is numerically studied in order to present the application of dimensionless heatfunction for entire computational domain including solid and fluid regions in an enclosure with thick solid ceiling. The modified dimensionless heatfunction for solid region is defined to provide continuity of dimensionless heatfunction on solid-fluid interface. The enclosure is differentially heated from vertical walls, and horizontal walls are adiabatic. Finite difference method is employed to solve the set of governing equations. The dimensionless governing parameters for computations are: Rayleigh number (from 103 to 106), dimensionless ceiling wall thickness (0.05 and 0.5) and thermal conductivity ratio (from 1 to 100). The obtained results shows that the heat and fluid flows in the enclosure are considerably influenced by Rayleigh number and thermal conductivity ratio. Dimensionless wall thickness comparatively has less effect on heat transfer rate through the cavity. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.