Description:

Natural convection in an enclosed cavity is a basic problem in heat transfer, and has many applications in engineering and science. The existing correlations for date from the 1960s and are based on inaccurate CFD an limited experimental data. This project will develop new correlations for laminar and turbulent convection, through CFD modelling and a review of the modern literature on turbulent flows.

Type:

Undergraduate

Outcome:

An improved correlation for heat transfer in side heated cavities to be presented in a conference paper.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: MechEng.311. Corequisite: MechEng.718

Specialisations

• Mechanical Engineering

Categories

• Aero-Fluid-Hydrodynamics
• Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

Supervisor

• Stuart Norris

Team

• Elisha Alexander
• Nathan Hartley

Lab

Thermofluids Lab (Newmarket 901 Lvl 3 , Lab)